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7545670 No.7545670 [Reply] [Original]

Can we please be allowed to say "Jap" or "Nip" again instead of typing out the full word "Japanese" or "Japanese person," without anyone getting offended? 4chan isn't as bad but most sites have people - almost assuredly sheltered white liberals - going ballistic at the usage of these abbreviations. Do British people take offense at being called Brits?

How many people complaining were alive and fighting during WWII? It's been 70 years. Get over it. It's like the story of the monkeys and the fire hose all over again.

>> No.7545676

nigger

>> No.7545678

Personally, I don't care. Tell me more about these monkeys and the firehose.

>> No.7545683

>Do British people take offense at being called Brits?

We don't refer to ourselves as British in the first place.

>> No.7545704

>>7545678

Start with a cage containing five monkey. Inside the cage, hang a banana on a string and place a set of stairs under it. Before long, one of the monkeys will go to the stairs and start to climb towards the banana. As soon as he touches the stairs, all of the monkeys are sprayed with cold water.

After a while, another monkey makes an attempt with the same result, then, all of the monkeys are sprayed with cold water. Pretty soon, none of the monkeys will try to climb the stairs. Now, put away the cold water. Remove one monkey from the cage and replace it with a new one. The new monkey sees the banana and wants to climb the stairs. To his surprise and horror, all of the other monkeys attack him. After another attempt and attack, he knows that if he tries to climb the stairs, he will be assaulted.

Next, remove another of the original five monkeys and replace it with a new one. The newcomer goes to the stairs and is attacked. The previous newcomer takes part in the punishment with enthusiasm! Likewise, replace a third original monkey with a new one, then a fourth, and then a fifth. Every time the newest monkey takes to the stairs, he is attacked. Most of the monkeys that are beating him have no idea why they were not permitted to climb the stairs, or why they are participating in the beating of the newest monkey.

After replacing all the original monkeys, none of the remaining monkeys have ever been sprayed with cold water. Nevertheless, no monkey ever again approaches the stairs to try for the banana.

The differences here being a) the new monkeys know that the old monkeys were sprayed with cold water, but also b) the hose was taken away 70 years ago and now there is no threat in the way of the bananas.

>> No.7545716

>>7545704
Awesome.

>> No.7545719
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7545719

Time to make this /jp/ related, so now this is a Saten-sama thread!

>> No.7545720

>>7545670
buttfurious eleven

>> No.7545728

>>7545720
Should of just said jap. >>>/a/

>> No.7545729

>>7545720
>eleven
Haven't heard that since the split.

>> No.7545739

>>7545728
Came from /m/ actually.

>> No.7545740

gooks

>> No.7545761

Jap is so much easier to say and type.

It falls in the same category as yank, brit, aussie, or kiwi as a nickname for someone of a country.

If somebody says "fucking jap", it is the word 'fucking' that is contemptuous, just like when a britqueer says "fucking yank"

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7545779

holy HELL, jap is also a racial slur? i thought only nip!
>EVERYONES FACE WHEN

>> No.7545792

>>7545779
Surprisingly, most people don't know it's a "racial slur"

To be honest, the usage has changed.

The only people who think it's offensive are anal-retentive politically correct austists.

>> No.7545797

>>7545761
>britqueer
Now that was just uncalled for. Fucking yank.

>> No.7545819

It's been a long time since you could call a spade a spade.

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7545999

>>7545670
>Jap is no more offensive than Brit

Jap is a racial slur
Brit is not

>> No.7546011

i doubt that jap is a insult it's a abberivation of the word japnese-american also nip is a slong term blacks use to reffer to cheese nips or nipples.

poeple these days are too easliy offended by everything and everythign ahs to be soooo pr, really bugs me.

>> No.7546018

Englishman - fine
Frenchman - fine
Chinaman - OFFENSIVE

>> No.7546048

I've been discriminated against, but I've never really seen it as much of a problem. There are far worse insults.

>> No.7546080

>>7546018

The problem is that people use words like 'chinaman' as insults, that's why it's offensive.

Japanese people do find 'Jap' to be offensive.

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7546091

>>7546018
Dude, Chinaman is not the preferred nomenclature.
Asian-American, please.

>> No.7546094

>>7546080
Only war veterans and old geezers who lived thru WWII find jap offensive.

>> No.7546112

>>7545683
>We don't refer to ourselves as British in the first place.

Speak for yourself.

>> No.7546229

i dont give a shit, fuck the police. i'll continue saying jap and nip all i want. call the police i don't even care.

>> No.7546386

Its like the glorious Japanese calling us gaijins. More than likely one would take offense to that but depending on how it is used can just be either a casual form or an insult.

>> No.7546929

One of the nature of language is that it is dynamic. It changes through time. Remember that people.

>> No.7546943

>>7545792
Hey, I'm not politically correct!

>> No.7546956

>>7546080
>See also: "aryan", "mongoloid"
>>7545999
Isn't the English great like that?
>>7546091
How about "chuukokujin"…hmm…maybe not.
>>7546929
A laungage can also be wiped out. See "extinct languages" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Unfood's so doubleplusgood.

>> No.7546959

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>> No.7546962

One day every word will be offensive, and we will have to cut out our tongues.

>> No.7546964

>>7546018
The bartender looks, and cries, "What is this? Some kind of joke?" *coolguy-ba-dum-tish!*

>> No.7546972

>>7546091
A bit offtopic, but the tendency of Americans to refer to themselves as [ethnicity]-American has always confused me a little. Ethnically you may be Chinese/African/whatever but your nationality is American, so just say that. Feel free to enlighten me if I'm missing some reason to do that besides getting attention.

On topic, I don't know many people who'd consider Jap an insult, and it's pretty commonly used just as a shortened version of Japanese.

>> No.7546978

>>7546972
Why refer to themselves as Americans at all? Why not just refer to themselves by their ethnic heritage - "I'm Chinese?"

>> No.7546993

>>7546972
>Ethnically you may be Chinese/African/whatever but your nationality is United-States-American (or Usonian).
Get your own damn denonym, fukken yanks and confies !(yeah, I went there (o_o),,|,)

>> No.7547010

>A laungage can also be wiped out. See "extinct languages" and "Nineteen Eighty-Four". Unfood's so doubleplusgood.

My point was it wouldn't be surprising if the word "Jap" lost its racist connotation and if only a small sample still consider it to be offensive.

Yes, I do know that languages can be wiped out. Sorry, I'm a bit of a tard but, your point was?

>> No.7547035

>>7547010
Just using a strawman, mate. I agree with your first line, though. Also, to OP: have you considered a keyboard with programmable buttons, such as a Logitech G15 (Old version, not the shitty 6-macro version), or the G510?

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7548859

>>7545670
>Do British people take offense at being called Brits?
>>7545761
>It falls in the same category as brit
>>7546011
>i doubt that jap is a insult

Jap is not the same as Brit. Yankee, however, is derogatory and I do take offense when Europeans call me one.

>> No.7548880

The word cunt should not be offensive as it is extremely satisfying to say out loud.

>> No.7548885

German here.
English speakers tend to shorten 'german' into 'nazi' a lot.

>> No.7548891

>>7548885
Fellow german here.
I do that too.
Pretty edgy and cool huh?

>> No.7548899

Why abreviate at all? only underages do that.

>> No.7548908

>>7548899

Do you say "citizen of the United States of America?"
"Citizen of the People's Republic of China?"
"Citizen of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?"

>> No.7548914

>>7548880

Give it a few hundred years. Have a sizable number of people use it in a different context enough and you might just make it happen.

Hey, faggot originally meant "stick" or "twig". It's not impossible.

>> No.7548922

>>7548914
It became offensive due to a few hundred years.

>> No.7548952

I don't have any problem with people saying Jap or Nip. I'm much more offended by people who come here and openly insult this board and its users.

>> No.7548966

mfw nobody mentioned "jew" yet

>> No.7548974

>>7548880
I hear some people use it, not as an insult, all the time.

"Could yeh help me with these, luv?"
"No, cunt. Me mits are full"

>> No.7548978

>>7548974
man I wish I could visit scottland just to experience a moment like that. the world sure is silly.

>> No.7549553

Words cannot describe how much I hate people who complain on things because someone else might be offended.

Mind your own business and let the people who are offended complain.

>> No.7549576

i dont even know whats this thread about

>> No.7549633

>>7545670
>Do British people take offense at being called Brits?

Its the intent behind the word. Typing the word Jap is okay since its being done because of laziness, not because of dickery.

>> No.7549930

im korean

>> No.7550015

>>7548859
> Yankee, however, is derogatory and I do take offense when Europeans call me one.

unpatriotic America detected.

Dictionaries are NOT the authority on slang terminology.

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