re: Fergusons famed and reliable "witness 40"--

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I can't be held accountable for how a stupid person interprets a word, especially when its objective definition is precisely what I mean to indicate by using it.

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You should hold yourself accountable for not unnecessarily contributing to a problem you claim to want to solve. Up to a point, it doesn't matter that their standards for what is "racist" are unreasonable. I think that I can avoid the use of the word thug without putting an unreasonable burden on my ability to communicate. For example, in this case, Brown acted like a violent criminal in that convenience store. With no harm to me, I avoided using a term that black people now see as racist. If they deemed "violent criminal" racist when describing exactly that, that would probably be unreasonable. I'll cross that bridge when it gets here. But my point is that we need to be realistic and not so rigidly idealistic (about things that don't really matter, like the webster definition of "thug") if we don't want to be part of the problem.