Do you think the word 'Jap' is a racial slur? This word was used fairly often in '1941'.
In my opinion, I think it is just a abbreviation for 'Japanese'.
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FYI, I've seen a cut scene in which an american spits at the Japanese flag on a submarine.
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We want realism in our historical movies but we complain when real actual dialogue of the times like this are in the movie? So which is it folks, you can't have it both ways. Okay, so it's a racial slur, great. Now what? Some of you say it like you'd prefer these movies get censored to your standard of political correctness or something. Sorry, I can't get on board with that.
The fact is, people said "Japs" a lot back in the early 40's. Deal with it. At least we as a society have hopefully learned from it, as you don't see people walking around referring to asians "japs" much anymore, do we? There you go, that's something positive, right?
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Nip is more offensive. "It's hip to eat nip." The Odd Couple
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I like the way you think.
"check the imdb cast list before asking who portrayed who in movies please"
japanese is no more a race than british is. jap is no more racist than brit.
even if it is being used in a derogatory manner it would be xenophobic not racist.
Who made people believe "Jap" is a racial slur? Was it a random Japanese person in a western society asking not to use "Jap" because it's offensive? I highly doubt about that. One thing is sure that it's one of those "white guilt" thing. It's somehow really wrong to kill Japanese people with atomic bombs while millions of American soldiers killed by Japanese soldiers.
shareWould calling someone a Swede be racist to the Swedish? Would calling someone a Rus be racist towards Russians? Would calling someone a Can be racist to Canadians? Even if you were so thin-skinned to say yes to all of those, you'd still be wrong because nationalism =/= racism.
La religion est fausse, mais vous êtes réel. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bpq26sPbC_4
Only if YOU mean it so---- You can call someone a MFr and chuckle a little and no one cares --- Be a little more serious and the fight is on
It is considered a 'Racial Slur" NOW because it makes other, more shallow people, feel better about themselves to blame you for it
I always thought it was the abbreviation, and none of the Japs I call Japs seem upset about it