Cenk Uygur
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Why Does The Media Insist On Calling Protesters Thugs?
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April 30, 2015
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9:35Now PlayingAs the protests in Baltimore continue there is a word that we keep hearing brought up, not just by conservatives by liberals as well, and that word is "thug". What group the word thug gets applied to depends on who's telling the story. From the media all the way up to President Obama, use of the word "thug" is wide spread. John Iadarola (Think Tank) and Mark Sovel (The Lip TV) discuss on The Young Turks. Do you have a problem with people calling protesters thugs? Tell us what you think in the comment section below.
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"Erin Burnett really tried, bless her heart, to imagine a reason why it might be inappropriate to refer to protesting black Baltimore teenagers as thugs.
The CNN host was interviewing Baltimore city councilman Carl Stokes when she defended Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake’s categorization of the teens as criminals and thugs—asking Stokes why it wasn’t “the right word?”
Well for one thing they’re kids, Stokes points out.
“But how does that justify what they did? I mean that’s a sense of right and wrong. They know it’s wrong to steal and burn down a CVS and an old person’s home, I mean, come on,” Burnett clarifies, uncomprehending.
“Come on? So calling them thugs? Just call them niggers. Just call them niggers,” Stokes replies. “No. We don’t have to call them by names such as that. We don’t have to do that.”
Burnett, to be fair, later promises she “would hope that [she] would call [her] son a thug if he did such a thing.”*
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