[Ads-l] thug

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 29, 2015, at 1:55 PM, victor steinbok <aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> If you haven't followed "progressive" social media, "'Thug' is the new
> 'nigger'" is a long-running meme. The idea is that MSM refers differently
> to large-scale disturbances and their participants  according to race. The
> data sample is rather small, even if someone bothered to collect it. And I
> doubt anyone bothered.
> 

Ah, these acronyms (and/or initialisms)!  I'm still in the mode of reading MSM as 'men who have sex with men', but I gather from the context and the number agreement that this time it's MainStream Media (construed as a singular).  Either that or it would be a weird tendency.

LH

> 
> On 1:14pm, Wed, Apr 29, 2015 Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> It was, however, used confidently by the President of the United States.
> 
> JL
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