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Originally Posted by Nathan
Now you're comparing a word that some see with a tone of racism to words that were created out of racism and hatred.
Edit: MMM beat me to it =p
And you're really stretching if you're making those comparisons.
Why are you so dead set on this being racist? Have you personally had a Japanese citizen call you a gaijin with racist or discriminatory intent?
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What difference should it matter where the word originated? Surely anything that can carry a racist connotation can be racist regardless of it's history?
I'm not dead set on this being racist (until my g/f said she didn't like it, I used to use the word) but nobody can give a convincing arguement why it is NOT racist other than 'yeah, it just means you are not Japanese' which doesn't really prove it either way