Ah, so these nice young men of culture* decided to call themselves thugs, and mean some entirely new and never seen before conceptualized form of the word "thug", and we are supposed to fall in line?
Nah, "thug" is "thug". Weird counter-cultures can yammer on about their new meanings and I simply don't care.
The purpose of language is actually for this unusual concept we call "communication". It involves a mutually-agreed-upon set of word==>meaning pairs, in order for people to actually, er,
understand each other. Random confusionists are to be roundly ignored, not given power by paying attention to them.
And I see they pulled the racism card.
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* -- rap apparently constitutes "culture" these days?