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Originally Posted by Drithe
I want to know the truth. Is this just some stupid PC stunt by silly white people or do the Japanese really care about the name "Japs"?
It doesn't seem racial to me. I understand the term was used in WW2. Still doesn't seem racial to me though.
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Having a nickname for a group of people, and using a term that has a history of oppression and racism are two different things. For example, the term "black" doesn't have the same history of oppression that "n****r" does.
It is not a "stupid PC stunt" because the word was used in the US to dehumanize Japanese long before PC was a thing.