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Frenchie
Jap
Brit
Yank
Itai
Kiwi
Ruskie
Czech
Pole
Thai
Dane
Fin
...Vitard
What ones are offensive? Anyone want to work it out for me because I don't know. Thought they were just shortened
The Shop
Let's review the Webster dictionary definition yet again, but this time in all caps:
JAP [NOUN OR ADJECTIVE]
DISPARAGING + OFFENSIVE
: JAPANESE
Next supercross press conference should mention how the Merriam-Webster dictionary is wrong.
If so, who was that guy and who’s press credentials did he steal?
I can’t remember exactly what he said at the end of to the 250 riders but do recall it being another awkward/head scratcher...
I've read a fair bit about the atrocities committed by Japanese soldiers during WW2. Some gnarly shit that is pretty much unforgivable and makes your stomach turn just reading about it.
However, I'm a firm believer in taking responsibility for our own actions, and not being held accountable for the actions previous generations committed long before I was born.
My grandpa served in the US Navy in the Pacific for the entirety of WW2. He was a Pearl Harbor survivor, who lost his best friend on the USS Arizona, and he was serving on the USS Wisconsin at the time of the Japanese surrender. He had no love of the Japanese, so I heard the term Jap when I was growing up, and I knew from a young age that it wasn't a term of endearment.
I understand his feelings towards the Japanese, but I have done some work in Japan, and found the Japanese people I met to be very friendly, honest and likeable people. Those people are no more responsible for what the Japanese soldiers in WW2 did than I am for the US firebombing Tokyo or dropping nukes on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
My grandma's brother was killed by a German sniper in WW2. I dont dislike Ken Roczen because of that.
So, if you want to post up links to hold grudges against people for the horrible things the people of their country did generations ago, we're going to be here a while since the list of nations that have done horrible things to one group or another is pretty freaking long.
To your last paragraph.... this includes our own country (US). I love my country and those who serve....However, it's ludicrous to think this country and some of our service folk have been pure as the driven snow.
Can we still say Jeff Ward was originally a Scot??
And how come you guys can get away with calling me a Brit??
But surely 'Jap' was used merely as an abbreviation of the word Japanese? Not to describe a prisoner.
For instance, if there was a German being held in the same Prison as the 'Japs', would he too be referred to as a Jap?
No... because he's not from Japan.
Its just silly. The prisoners were called Japs because they were from Japan. Nothing more, nothing less.
You can't make a big deal out of calling something or someone exactly what they are.
Pit Row
IF during WWII the prison guards DIDN'T us the term 'Jap', but they always said 'Japanese'
Would the word "Japanese" now be considered offensive?
Honest question.
After thinking about this, I have a question...
IF during WWII the prison guards DIDN'T us the term 'Jap', but they always said 'Japanese'
Would the word "Japanese" now be considered offensive?
Honest question.
I fart in your general direction!!!!
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