| badgenome said: Yeah, it's a slur. Of course there's nothing racist about acknowledging a phenotypical aspect, but calling East Asians "slants" is pretty dehumanizing because it reduces them to that one feature of their body. It's like calling blacks "darkies." |
A friend once told me a story about the first time his niece saw a black. She was like mommy that guy has chocolate all over his face.
Another side note... I never knew Jap was a racial word till freshman year in high school. I believe I was typing into a search engine during a computer class and the teacher looked all shocked. I was like what? He was like don't you know that is a racist term. Well that is how USA newspapers referred to Japanese back in the day and my grandpa fought in the Pacific. I just thought it was a shorter word for Japanese but I suppose it was used in the same sense as the word gook in Vietnam war.
