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[mustbebunnies]

Um, you guys, don't get me wrong but...is the word 'chinks', 'japs' or 'viets' offensive?!?!?! drowsyphoenix just showed me this really old thread about Michelle Branch, and they're all like, it's a racist slur and shit like that

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[somefairytale]

In Britain, chinks and japs are definitely offensive.

[xopinkmoonxo]

umm yeah I would say its kind of offensive here. Unless you are asian and are using those words with other asian people. But I would never refer to someone that way, and I'd probably be offended for whoever was called that.

[mystalkershrine]

I don't consider them offensive, but I don't say those words cause they are offensive where I live (US). The only reason I don't consider them offensive is because I haven't been raised to consider them offensive.

The word that will highly offend me at any time on any day is nigger. I don't even like the word nigga, but nigger is the word that I just cannot stand, and it's probably the only word I ever hesitate to read out loud (if it's in a book that we're reading in class), and actually a word I even hesitate to write :$ I think it's because I was told it was offensive when I was 7 or 8 and watching Family Matters. It's a show about a black family living in Chicago. Anyways, the girl in the family, Laura, her locker got tagged by someone...I think it was a black basketball guy, and I can't recall why he did it. But he tagged her locker with the word nigger, and I had to have my mother explain to me that it was offensive.

And that's my story :$

[surrexi]

As far as I can tell, in the US at least, racial names like these are pretty much only supposed to be used by the people they refer to, otherwise it's considered racist hate speech.

So, being white, I can't call a black person "nigger" or an Asian person a "chink" without people thinking I'm a racist, but if I were black I could use "nigger" to refer to myself or my friends.

Though I must confess to having used "Japs" in my notes for my class on WWII this past semester. But that was pretty much purely for the purposes of taking notes on the fly...gotta write fast, lol!

[mustbebunnies]

Though I must confess to having used "Japs" in my notes for my class on WWII this past semester. But that was pretty much purely for the purposes of taking notes on the fly...gotta write fast, lol!

LOL! I say, 'Japs', 'Chinks', 'Viets' all the time, thinking it was like an abbreviation for 'Japanese', 'Chinese' and 'Vietnamese' ya know? ]

This is interesting ;)

[diapositive]

Hmm, in French there's the word 'chintok' (=chink), and I wouldn't use it. Not that I've actually heard anyone say that, but I think it would probably considered offensive.