japanese posters
Out of context: Reply #48
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Hey monokrom, you seem to have me confused with someone else.
"Your whole cause for complaint is that using "Jap" as an abbreviation for Japanese is that it recalls a now-distant era"
I didn't say anything like this.
My only complaint was at the start of this thread, regarding you criticising some guy for saying something he never said.
"You insist that "Jap" always has been, is now, and always will be used as a racial epithet."
No I don't. I never said anything of the sort, nor anything remotely similar. In fact I said exactly the opposite of it 'always' being a racial epithet. I said in some contexts it's an abbreviation, in some it may even be a friendly term.
The only thing that i can think that you are disagreeing with here is my saying that in a forum like this, where you can't be sure of the reader's context, some people will find the term offensive.
Is that what you are trying to mean? That under no circumstance could someone reading this forum find the term offensive?
I agree that debate over whether a word is/is not acceptable is essentially pointless.