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Originally Posted by vargha
Geez, "Nip" is short for "Nippon" (what the Japanese call their country) and "Jap" is short for Japan. Seems pretty mild to me, Barry. I suppose some of our soldiers on the Bataan death march may have had a word or two that was a tad harsher than those. I'm guessing the people of Nanking probably had some stronger words as well.
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Does knowledge of the etymology of a racial slur make it ok? Does the existence of worse racial slurs make it ok? Obviously 1945 was a different time from 2011, but this is a strange battle to choose to fight.
JimB