"Japs" acceptable slur?

[Sileighty_85]

Originally Posted by illvialuver

She gets more affended by being called Chinese, well now we cant say Chinese anymore. Damn.

Yeah cuz she's not Chinese..... she's Japanese

[demonspeed]

<----Black Guy


I dont get offended by the term 'N Word ending with ER' because i know what it means, but apparently not alot of white people or any other races know. The term N Word ending with ER IS a bad word BUT it also means to be ignorant...meaning that yes, white people can be Plural Form N word ending with ER too *gasp*. As far as the term Jap, i wouldnt use it but thats just me.

It kills me how young people use N Word ending with GA to sound cool....and it kills me even more how the same people talk about being oppressed for 400 years...ABSOLUTELY HATE THAT SHIT! If you werent there firsthand, then honestly stfu because you have no idea what you're talking about.

[Corbic]

Legit question:

Now I've heard the term "oriental" is offensive, much in the way "colored" is now offensive.

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by Sileighty_85

Yeah cuz she's not Chinese..... she's Japanese

Try being Korean, most people either have never heard of it or think your Communist.

[Arsenal240sx]

This should sum it up..

Dave Chappelle - Chinese/Korean Skit - YouTube

[kingkilburn]

Colored was always an offensive term white people just didn't care that it offended the coloreds.

[Future240]

Fellows remember Zilvia rules still apply. Discuss this all you want. No need to include the slurs in your posts.

On Topic: Slurs have existed and will always exist. IMO people shouldn't use them in general. If I am going to insult a person, I can do it without insulting their race as well. A dumbass is a dumbass not matter what race/creed/religion etc.

I choose not to be offended by someone using such words towards me. I've seen someone drop the N bomb towards me. I shrugged it off and kept on with my business. Getting mad and acting an ass towards an ignorant person will only solidify what they believe.

I choose instead to fuck with people mentally. If I see someone watching me in a store, going to a different side of the street when I walk down it (no bullshit this happened today lol) I wave at the person, or smile. It's especially fun with the really old ones.

I love the look on a person's face when I can see they are judging me and I have just blown all of their pre-judgements out of the water.

[demonspeed]

Lol my fault droppin all those n bombs haha! I love fuckin with old white ladies when they clutch their purses like barry sanders clutches footballs...really? I also love the music stereotype...black people only listen to rap...i did a show last week and had some guy ask me what are my musical influences. I told him: Outkast, Common, Rage against the machine, Linkin Park, with the energy of Slipknot...dude looked at me like O_O haha!

Dont stereotype me is the moral of the story

[T chop]

Yes, Jap is fine. So is Jew,black (some people are uncomfortable saying black),brown for East Indian people and white all are fine.

[Zero_Cool]

Originally Posted by fliprayzin240sx

I think it all depends on its used and context. I lived in japan for 4 yrs and like stated already, most foreigner say jap as a shortened way of saying japanese.

Now, I've also sat thru a briefing of a WWII vet who served in Phillipines. When he said the word Jap, you knew he meant it with disdain and prejudice.

that term jap usually is said from folks thru that WW2 era. my grandpa served and was in the pacific fighting the japanese and my dad said he called them Japs with hatred lol my coworker was like heyy:/ when i said japs, she said "u can call us japs on dec. 7th lol

[idahotuner]

fuck being politically correct these days! you cant make everyone happy, thats why there are different countrys

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by kingkilburn

Colored was always an offensive term white people just didn't care that it offended the coloreds.

Why don't white people start saying "white" is offensive and demand to be called Caucasian or "European Americans".


The term "African American" is also idiotic, considering there are a good number of "white" Africans and many more Arab, Egyptian and "other" Mediterranean based ethnic groups in Africa.

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by Arsenal240sx

This should sum it up..

Dave Chappelle - Chinese/Korean Skit - YouTube

I think Chappelle did more to reinforce negative racial stereotypes than he did to "make light of and show how idiotic" they are.

[Quail]

In the UK "jap" is used quite extensively, but only as an abbreviation. 99% of the people who use it don't realise it could be considered a derogatory term (hence Japspeed, etc), and there is no malice or prejudice behind it. I don't use it myself.

To the users saying people shouldn't be offended by words, that's easier said then done. Its not the words that are offensive; but the meaning behind them. If a friend calls me "n****r" in a jovial way, I'm not going to be offended. If a random skinhead comes up to me, calls me a n****r, and spits in my direction, it's hard not to react in a negative way...

I have no idea why some people are uncomfortable saying "black". I've never heard any black person be offended by being referred to as "black". If they are, they're probably the oversensitive type that you find in any and all ethnic groups. Black isn't a derogatory term. This differs from "Yellow", which is. Like I said before, it's not the words that are offensive, but the intent.

Edit - Cleaned up the post; missed Future240's post beforehand.

[Matej]

Originally Posted by Sileighty_85

Yeah cuz she's not Chinese..... she's Japanese

People always mistake me for Russian or German, even though I am from a different country.
Should I be offended? Or does it not matter because I am white?

[axiomatik]

'Jap' has a somewhat negative connotation in the US. However, it's negative connotation has always been somewhat ambiguous, because it could also just be an abbreviation. In other english-speaking countries, such as England, Ireland, Australia, it doesn't have a negative connotation.

[Chaluska]

Originally Posted by Matej

....People always mistake me for Russian or German, even though I am from a different country.
Should I be offended? Or does it not matter because I am white?

I constantly correct people who call me white, to let them know i am Czech.

you wouldn't call a Japanese person Chinese.

nor a Brazilian a Mexican or Puertorican.

[azndummie]

If you know what the word "jap" refer's to its the reference to when Japanese Americans were confined in concentration camps and this is why it's offensive. It's not the particular word that is offensive the the meaning behind it.

[cc4usmc]

Originally Posted by demonspeed

I love fuckin with old white ladies when they clutch their purses like barry sanders clutches footballs...really?

Do you blame her?

[lflkajfj12123]

Originally Posted by Chaluska

I constantly correct people who call me white, to let them know i am Czech.

you wouldn't call a Japanese person Chinese.

nor a Brazilian a Mexican or Puertorican.

thats the stupidest thing i've heard ahaha

you're white

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by s0apgun

thats the stupidest thing i've heard ahaha

you're white

Racist! He's Checklo-American!!

lol

[ManoNegra]

Originally Posted by Chaluska

nor a Brazilian a Mexican or Puertorican.

if you're brown in LA your automatically Mexican. Fact.

I see racial stereotypes reinforced on a daily basis here in good ol' Crenshaw
funniest thing is seeing the fat Mexican chunte across the street
that drives a dunked out old Camaro in neon green sparkle paint blasting an eclectic mix of rancheras and gangster rap while referring to everybody as his N***a!

[Corbic]

Originally Posted by ManoNegra

if you're brown in LA your automatically Mexican. Fact.

I see racial stereotypes reinforced on a daily basis here in good ol' Crenshaw
funniest thing is seeing the fat Mexican chunte across the street
that drives a dunked out old Camaro in neon green sparkle paint blasting an eclectic mix of rancheras and gangster rap while referring to everybody as his N***a!

I just read that out loud in a mexican accent. Thank you, I can now sleep well.

[BradGriffith1]

Originally Posted by kingkilburn

coloreds.

wiiiiiiiin

[kingkilburn]

White is what the western European people called themselves when they struck out into the world. It's funny to me that they considered Irish and Italians to be other than white.


I can see any eastern European person being offended by being called Russian. The country did try to dominate the region for centuries.


P.S.
If you speak any derivation of Latin, Germanic, Slavic, or Greek, you are white. Get over it.

[theicecreamdan]

Originally Posted by cc4usmc

I'd like to know is why people still feel it's necessary to be offended by words.

If you know somebody is going to be offended by something, and you have other words (because we're intelligent), why wouldn't you use them?

EIther you're lazy, or trying to insult people, but you want to hide behind the fact that "they're just words."

[kingkilburn]

Words are just words whether their intent be negative or positive. Saying they shouldn't affect you is a cop out.

[upsdude]

in hypersensitive politically correct america, calling someone a jap is offensive. to the rest of the world it's not a big deal. people take more offense when you call them the wrong nationality. for instance, people from south american countries HATE being being mistaken for mexicans. i know this because someone mistook my wife as mexican (she's peruvian) and she was bitching about it all day lol.

Originally Posted by Future240

No need to include the slurs in your posts.

judging from the the redacting, you're referring to the "n-words" from demonspeed's posts...that's the kind of politically correct stuff that irks the hell out of me. he wasn't calling anyone specifically those words yet his post was edited as if he was. he has a point though. as long as i hear black guys call each other that name, it doesn't matter if it ends with a "gger" or "gga"-they've lost the right to bitch about that slur still being in existence as far as i'm concerned since they're just perpetuating it.

[sw20>>s14]

for everyone bitchin' about being too PC and too soft (which i agree with, but not in this case), would you call an unknown black male on the street "boy" and not see the connotation?

[ManoNegra]

Originally Posted by upsdude

in hypersensitive politically correct america, calling someone a jap is offensive. to the rest of the world it's not a big deal. people take more offense when you call them the wrong nationality. for instance, people from south american countries HATE being being mistaken for mexicans. i know this because someone mistook my wife as mexican (she's peruvian) and she was bitching about it all day lol.

Actually any Latin person not Mexican hates being called a Mexican.