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hi jpg how's the family

good day to you, sic

jpg didn't load for me, I ctrl+f'd Bramwell to no avail

are jpgs people, my friend?

are friends jpgs?

Matt P is really made of people!!!!!!!

(I'm using the plural because Viceroy kept calling me Bramwell on the genderqueer thread, too. :-/)

Can I ask about a thing that may or may not be a thread somewhere? I've seen dozens of thinkpieces and tons of social media posts about this, but can't find a simple explanation of what the Richard Sherman / U.S. football player thing was. I understand he had a 'rant' of some kind that upset people, but it's genuinely hard to parse the basic facts of the thing!

http://deadspin.com/richard-sherman-and-the-plight-of-the-conquering-negro-1505060117

kind of think-piecey but does lay out the timeline/facts

he made a play that won his team the penultimate american football game of the year then was immediately interviewed and yelled and insulted the team he just beat - then for the next few days the media and much of the american people used barely coded racist language like "thug" and "animal" to describe him which was eventially problematized when they learned he graduated from one of the best colleges and spends his free time doing community service, many thinkpieces were conceived, i got in a fight with my cousin on facebook

are you friends again now?

hah not sure

America's wounds need time to heal

Barely coded tho

From a national sportswriting perspective there really weren't that many articles attacking Sherman was there? felt like there was a zillion pieces rushed out to defend him from a backlash that never really came. not even Rick Reilly or Gregg Easterbrook bit on that. My issues with Sherman lie in 1) calling out Crabtree when really Kaepernick should've known to throw it out the back of the endzone (the ball was underthrown, play didn't have much to do with Crabtree really), and then 2) buying like a million bucks worth of gold-plated Beats headphones (which is offensive to the audiophile part of me)

http://regressing.deadspin.com/the-word-thug-was-uttered-625-times-on-tv-yesterday-1506098319/@kylenw

http://regressing.deadspin.com/the-word-thug-was-uttered-625-times-on-tv-yesterday-1506098319

lol xp

the word 'thug' was used in an awful lot of articles that were defensive about him too. don't necessarily see how "lots of people said thug on TV = wow so much racism about Richard Sherman"

Everything I do is 100% thuggish ruggish

― beyonc'e (max), Saturday, December 6, 2008 7:45 AM (5 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

the word thug just happened on tv a lot of times nothing to see here folks

Good link thks.

Thug means thug here and most places tbf but hey, america, i guess

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thuggee

it's happening a lot of times on this thread too is what i'm saying

people just saying thug a lot for no reason, makes sense

Thug means thug here and most places tbf but hey, america, i guess

― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, January 31, 2014 10:17 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

believe this 100%

as usual darragh is flat0out wrong, "thug" is certainly one of the more coded epithets here as well, though not only in a racial way

you guys invented 'thug'!

well not invented, but it's a colonial term, right?

is that pronounced with a hard "g"?

it's not like "thug" codes racially guys

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/04/17/article-2131143-12A3DE85000005DC-810_306x447.jpg

Id be wary of the thuggee thing tbh but that never seems to have ever 'happend'

xp to lagún ya i mean that sincerely part of my stepping back from all ilx controversy is that it seemed unfair of me to rub in that i live somewhere uncrazy

ok not a colonial term, but it's where the term came into english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confessions_of_a_Thug_%28novel%29

xps

http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/indias-infamous-thuggee-cult/5973

xp to lex idk if you mean 'here' as 'britain' but we 'here' where i am actually gained independence from youse a century ago so kindly desist u oppressor fuck

xp to lagún ya i mean that sincerely part of my stepping back from all ilx controversy is that it seemed unfair of me to rub in that i live somewhere uncrazy

― a horse divided cannot stand (darraghmac), Friday, January 31, 2014 10:25 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

its true i often wonder what it would be like to live in such a social utopia

see the Wikipedia link I posted goole!

free of class divisions, sun always shining

a boy could kick a ball in the street

yeah i know, i just had never heard of that novel

anyone who's come across the phrase "smoked irishman" may question the pre-lapsarian idyll darragh is evoking

people just saying thug a lot for no reason, makes sense

honest question have you ever watched a sportscenter

"somewhere uncrazy," lol come off it

honest question have you ever watched a sportscenter

― frogbs, Friday, January 31, 2014 10:29 AM (6 seconds ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yea every day they pick a different word to say a lot for no reason right

can't recall where I first read about thugees (was long before Wikipedia) but I do recall being really pruriently fascinated

deems is it at all possible you're pondering 'thug' through a soccerball viewers' lens here

i wd've first become aware of thuggee either thru non-racist sitcom It Ain't 'alf Hot Mum or non-racist sketch show The Two Ronnies iirc

they're in Temple of Doom innit

Never heard of a smoked irishman in my life?

Mencap def, was gonna say that to my mind (whos to say thats valid or what obv) yr thug here codes more moaty than along colour lines

But i was thrown by lex's usual sneering tone towards the stupid paddy innit

irish in-laws have used the expression to refer to black guys with Dub accents, of course you mayn't have come across it yrself

Just checked seems to be down as an american term as a handy way of insulting either?

But i always thought black irish meant black irish so srsly idk

i saw that American variant, obv there is a degree of US-Irish intercommunication somewhat higher than US-Englander so who knows

my half-joshing point was mainly don't crack on that you have no racial epithets of yr own tho