PS, I have it a lot worse than them.
Pretty much everyone else in neighborhoods I lived in are part of some "in group", what you middle class folks might call a "gang".
I've been excluded from my own neighborhood.
So they at least have *some* type of group loyalty and membership.
Most people I've met from these neighborhoods have at least ONE person, cousin, sibling, etc. who they get along with fairly decently. Usually there's a dozen or so.
I don't have that. So I actually have it a lot worse than other low income people do.
If I'm not making excuses for myself and I'm literally all alone in this neighborhood,
They have no excuse to make excuses for themself then.
To say that people who are from thug culture get NO respect is simply untrue. At my high school, the student population glamorized thugs. And these were middle class white kids.
The people above who have caught onto this thug glamorization culture are spot on.
I can find SEVERAL examples of gang members saying, "After I got jumped in*, people started respecting me"
This is proof that "gang members/thugs get no respect" simply isn't true.
*"Jumped in" is standard gang membership procedure. They will beat you for a few minutes, and then you are expected to stand up, sometimes expected to fight back…after this, you are initiated as a new recruit.
I have been jumped before. So why do people keep telling me "You don't understand how rough the gang life is…do you even know what the initation procedure is?"
I'VE BEEN FUCKING JUMPED BEFORE SO STOP TALKING TO ME LIKE A PUSSY. See? That's thug muh privilege in action. If I dressed/talked/acted like a thug, you would ASSUME I'm the type of dude who can get jumped and survive.