[Ads-l] thug

[Jonathan Lighter]

Two persons on CNN have averred that those who looted and burned the CVS,
etc., in Baltimore, are not and must not be called "thugs."

Because "'Thugs' is the new version of the n-word."

The word they recommend is "kids."

JL

-- 
"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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