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Originally Posted by flintlock
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Originally Posted by timmyg00
"Japs" is just the shortened form of "Japanese". It's like a nickname.
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The term may be shortened version of Japanese and a nickname, however, to Japanese people: it's a disparaging and offensive slang term. |
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I'm not a person who goes around using such labels as a matter of course... I think it's crass; but personally, I'm pretty tired of hearing about what I can and cannot say about any given group of people.
I think some people take such things too seriously. I could, this very second, decide that the term "Yank" was offensive to me, and then start demanding that people stop using it. The moderators would be pretty busy, I dare say
I won't make such a decision... it's just a word. Words only have power over you if you allow it.
TG
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