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Happy editing! Battlecrank (talk) 03:52, 12 June 2021 (UTC)

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You say 'Thug' is now a racially charged term. That's a new one on me. Is it listed among other such terms on a Wiki reference page? Or laid-down in some other book of rules? Valetude (talk) 18:31, 20 April 2022 (UTC)

This may be a uniquely American connotation, but there are many articles and much literature on the topic.

From Dictionary.com (see Origin and Usage Note sections): https://www.dictionary.com/browse/thug

From NPR in 2015, in conversation with a professor from Columbia University: https://www.npr.org/2015/04/30/403362626/the-racially-charged-meaning-behind-the-word-thug GrayAndRainbows (talk) 20:57, 20 April 2022 (UTC)