Because the word “thug,” specifically, has been firmly established as code for the n-word.

From my Facebook page regarding this and the “what about black on black” crime shit I keep reading posted by other black folks:

That’s some Michelle Obama-level side-eye.

This is just a symptom of disease that is the in-built institutional racism that cannot be saved by the concentration of melanin in a mayor’s or a president’s skin. The rioting and looting is a symptom of the same disease. The deliberate media ignorance of what is happening in places like Balitmore is a symptom of the…

It’s not a world-ending sin (I still want to touch your chest, Chris Evans! CALL ME) but I feel like if they wouldn’t make a lazy racist crack about Nick Fury then they shouldn’t be making lazy sexist cracks about Black Widow.

(EDIT: That’s why I’m not really down with the ‘But she’s just a fictional character!’…

Yes. I get a lot of heat from people (men and women) who get frustrated and offended when I point out the existence and unacceptability of these kinds of bullshit sexist comments (“Gawd, it’s just a joke, can’t you lighten up??”). And I always say, “Look, I’m not asking for perfection. Our society is screwed up, and…

"Apparently, this is hilarious instead of demeaning."

Dude, you just praised a woman's looks who was in the throes of a disease that caused her to exercise 4 hours a day and eat under 800 calories. She was deeply unhappy and SICK to the point of being near death. That's attractive? Are you completely clueless?

Shut up. Seriously.

Remember before the Internet when people just fucking proposed with a goddamn ring in a champagne glass/piece of chocolate cake/etc.?

Can I mention how lucky I am to have a man who made me wait at a spot at Glacier National Park for 5 minutes for 4 other people to leave in order to ask me, quietly, to marry him. No videos, no cameras, no audience. I am lucky.

everyone is afforded equal opportunity to succeed based upon their merits

No, being a super shitty human being does, though.

I think "the right to be forgotten" is amazing... for victims. This guy is a perpetrator, he doesn't deserve to shed that title.