| Ryuu96 said: Anyway, I think this is better to say publicly rather than hidden in a PM so that it educates others too. Avoid using the word "Jap(s)" as it's a derogatory/offensive word in the same way as "P*ki" is, the latter is especially offensive in the UK. "Jap" has a long history of being used in derogatory ways, especially by Americans towards Japanese people after Pearl Harbour/WW2 in which it replaced "Nip", it was used to cause offense, it still holds negative connotations and it's not hard to just say "Japanese" |
It should be obvious that I don't think of the Japanese people as lesser than, if what I said was looked at without bias.
I was specifically referring to WWII when they joined the Nazi's. The Nazi's which we all know were really bad, like the worst, ever.
Plenty of people call others Nazi's today, even if they clearly are not, and yet that doesn't seem to be a problem somehow.
Are we going to avoid using the word Nazi as well? We should at the very least, when being used to mark someone else as lesser than, don't you think?
