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Saturday, May 2, 2015

A brief history of the word ‘thug’ — it doesn’t mean what you think it means

A groups of Thugs strangling a traveller on a highway in India in the early 19th century (Columbia University)
After the funeral of Freddie Gray ignited protests in the streets of Baltimore, several elected officials used a word to describe those people who were setting fire to buildings, stealing from stores and smashing car windows and taillights: “thugs.”

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