[Bobboau]

oh, he abbreviated Japanese, this topic is doomed.

[Unknown Target]

Oh whatever. I certainly won't lock it if people don't get their panties in a wad. That being said, wtf Japan? Neat but wtf? Lol

[General Battuta]

No racial epithets please, I'm in a household with internment camp veterans and if they see it on mah screen they'll flip out.

[General Battuta]

Thank you, kind sir.

[Aardwolf]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

[Ravenholme]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

Tru dat, that's like getting offended for being called a "Brit" or a "Scot". Same thing, just a shortening of my nationality.

[General Battuta]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

Tru dat, that's like getting offended for being called a "Brit" or a "Scot". Same thing, just a shortening of my nationality.

Seriously?

No racial epithets please, I'm in a household with internment camp veterans and if they see it on mah screen they'll flip out.

That is serious **** right there. Jap is a racial epithet with a bad history.

[Ravenholme]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

Tru dat, that's like getting offended for being called a "Brit" or a "Scot". Same thing, just a shortening of my nationality.

Seriously?

No racial epithets please, I'm in a household with internment camp veterans and if they see it on mah screen they'll flip out.

That is serious **** right there. Jap is a racial epithet with a bad history.

So has Scot, you know, started out as a racial epithet used by the English and all. You dirty scot bastard, etc etc.

It's also not offensive, it is literally just a shortening of the name. I'm sorry if for those people it has bad connotations, but they're not intended or even really present.

Edit:

Oh, and I am avoiding saying it, out of respect for your veterans, do the same, please. I just think that it's possibly the most stupid thing I've heard all day.

[Colonol Dekker]

Lets not get distracted people.

Lets focus on the fact the video's not up so........................

playnicenao

[Ravenholme]

Lets not get distracted people.

Lets focus on the fact the video's not up so........................

playnicenao

Alright, Alright, I'm done anyway, this can only spiral downwards into the depths of the internet hate machine.

[General Battuta]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

Tru dat, that's like getting offended for being called a "Brit" or a "Scot". Same thing, just a shortening of my nationality.

Seriously?

No racial epithets please, I'm in a household with internment camp veterans and if they see it on mah screen they'll flip out.

That is serious **** right there. Jap is a racial epithet with a bad history.

So has Scot, you know, started out as a racial epithet used by the English and all. You dirty scot bastard, etc etc.

It's also not offensive, it is literally just a shortening of the name. I'm sorry if for those people it has bad connotations, but they're not intended or even really present.

Edit:

Oh, and I am avoiding saying it, out of respect for your veterans, do the same, please. I just think that it's possibly the most stupid thing I've heard all day.

I understand what you're saying, and I know it makes sense if taken outside of the cultural context, but, well...

...'negro' just means 'black'. I mean, it's only a color, right? It can't be offensive, can it?

Words are given meaning by their history and 'Jap' is a raw wound for people betrayed by their own country in a way that 'Scot' or 'Yank' isn't.

[Colonol Dekker]

Come on GB, lets drop teh subject.

[General Battuta]

Come on GB, lets drop teh subject.

Feel free to split. It's an interesting topic and I don't think emotions are particularly high.

[Colonol Dekker]

Nah they aren't, can't help to compartmentalise though.


Zim Zalah Bim. It is done!
the origin topics pretty empty now though

[Scotty]

Huh? Did somebody say 'japs' or something?

People offend too easily.

Tru dat, that's like getting offended for being called a "Brit" or a "Scot". Same thing, just a shortening of my nationality.

Seriously?

No racial epithets please, I'm in a household with internment camp veterans and if they see it on mah screen they'll flip out.

That is serious **** right there. Jap is a racial epithet with a bad history.

So has Scot, you know, started out as a racial epithet used by the English and all. You dirty scot bastard, etc etc.

It's also not offensive, it is literally just a shortening of the name. I'm sorry if for those people it has bad connotations, but they're not intended or even really present.

Edit:

Oh, and I am avoiding saying it, out of respect for your veterans, do the same, please. I just think that it's possibly the most stupid thing I've heard all day.

I understand what you're saying, and I know it makes sense if taken outside of the cultural context, but, well...

...'negro' just means 'black'. I mean, it's only a color, right? It can't be offensive, can it?

Words are given meaning by their history and 'Jap' is a raw wound for people betrayed by their own country in a way that 'Scot' or 'Yank' isn't.

It was also longer than 22.3 years ago.  That means we can joke about it.

[iamzack]

it seems silly that something a child would come up with on his own can be considered hugely offensive.

[General Battuta]

It was also longer than 22.3 years ago.  That means we can joke about it.

yes but they might launch a sneak attack on my naval assets while i'm asleep

(But seriously, these people were alive through it, at least wait for them to die.)

it seems silly that something a child would come up with on his own can be considered hugely offensive.

Once as a four-year-old I was attempting to cling to my mother's leg in a pool and I stumbled upon the nonsense word 'nggr!'

[Scotty]

If all it takes to make your naval assets vulnerable is sleep, I have no sympathy for you.

[Ravenholme]

Hmmm, I wonder if there is some kind of cultural difference there. I know guys (am related to, in fact) who were at Dunkirk and whom were Nazi POWs, none of them get the blind shivers when someone says 'Jerries' or 'Nazis'

[General Battuta]

Hmmm, I wonder if there is some kind of cultural difference there. I know guys (am related to, in fact) who were at Dunkirk and whom were Nazi POWs, none of them get the blind shivers when someone says 'Jerries' or 'Nazis'

I'm not talking about people who were in Japanese internment camps.

I'm talking about Japanese-American citizens who were dragged from their homes and herded into American concentration camps.

They don't take kindly to 'jap'.