re: Israel–Hamas War Discussion Thread: News Links On First Page

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So it’s ok to ‘Jew’ somebody down when you are buying something?

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As long as there are enough Polacks to change the lightbulbs

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Many more prerogative names for the enemy through history.

Be less soft and read history.

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This is true. Those WW2 short reels that would play between the "moving pictures" to drum up 'patriotism' and support for the war would often use terminology such as this.

Later, revisionists would try to erase the gov bias push by labeling things as pejorative and remove them for public consumption.

Rinse and repeat through the wars vs. native indians, spaniards, the french (who were key to our revolution win) etc...

Here's a wiki list of ethnic slurs and some background for each. Didn't know of most of 'em

LINK

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Polacks

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One of the few groups that has stood tall as a nation and rejected mass illegal immigration

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True.
As an adult, to realize how as kids we would repeat jokes to be funny... Kids didn't know what a Polack referred to, that it was referencing a specific people in a specific country, or even why the joke would be funny.

It wasn't until I was a young adult that I could identify a heritage within a last name...

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Fall of 1983 the prime minister of Japan was enroute to Washington DC passing over Pennsylvania . The local weather guy in Philly started his coverage with the statement "there is a little nip in the air". Leading up to a cold front.

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"Japs" is an abbreviation that has an insulting or pejorative connotation. While that is subjective, it's definitely not the proper name for the Japanese people

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My grandfather was 1st Marines, passed through Guadalcanal (missed the brunt of it) on his way to Peleliu. The Japs are deserving of this slur, they more than earned it.

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"Japs" is an abbreviation that has an insulting or pejorative connotation. While that is subjective, it's definitely not the proper name for the Japanese people


My grandfather was 1st Marines, passed through Guadalcanal (missed the brunt of it) on his way to Peleliu. The Japs are deserving of this slur, they more than earned it.

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I never got how shorting a word makes it a slur. If the US soldiers would have said Damn Japanese instead of Damn Japs would Japanese be considered offensive?

The argument that saying “Jews” is ok because it’s the first letters of their name while claiming “japs” as being offensive is wild as hell.

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Saying japs is not offensive. Said it all my life and no one has ever been offended.

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There's a Mexican in my hometown who is called "Jap" as a first name because he looks Japanese. He calls himself "Jap," e.g. "Jap Hernandez." Note: I changed the last name for posting.

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I guess Brits, Scots, Francs, etc. are pejoratives too. I very seriously doubt any Japs are upset about it but good job defending people that don’t give a shite about your crusade

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those are all real words, not slurs. "japs", however, is. only an autist would struggle with this.

National Guard to protect whom?

From potential violent counter-protestors?