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I'd go visit HuffPo right now and read this drivel...but I'm too busy listening to "Baby Its Cold Outside"
Apparently the state of Kansas has issued more than 700 license plates containing a "racial slur."
The plates numbers were assigned by a random number/letter generator and ended up with the letter combination of "JAP." An old japanese guy (in California of course) saw one of these plates and wrote a letter to the Governor of Kansas to complain. Now the plates are being recalled.
I don't know what worse, being offended by random characters on a license plate, or being a politician that's so PC that you're willing to spend thousands of dollars to capitulate to this nonsense.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...nse-plates-over-ethnic-slur-complaint-n941076
When did Jap become a racial slur?
When did Jap become a racial slur?
That’s one way to problematize it.Of course it's problematic. Rudolph never gets to give it to cute little Clarice. I'm changing my avatar to honor her.
When did Jap become a racial slur?
Hill urged countries to boycott Israel in a speech on Wednesday, calling for a “free Palestine from the river to the sea.” His comments sparked an immediate backlash, with many noting “from the river to the sea” is a phrase used by anti-Israel terror groups like Hamas that implies the elimination of the Israeli state.
When did Jap become a racial slur?
Not 100% sure which thread to put this, so I'll drop it here.
CNN contributor said some anti-Semitic stuff about Israel.
CNN actually fired him.
https://www.mediaite.com/tv/exclusive-cnn-fires-marc-lamont-hill-following-israel-comments/
I remember years ago going to our local amusement park (back in the early 70s) and they had an old game tucked in the back corner of the arcade. It had LOTS of caricatures of Japanese soldiers, that you used an arcade machine gun to shoot. The name? "Clip a Nip"https://aphiemi.wordpress.com/2009/...ne-from-display-out-of-political-correctness/
VA Hospital Removes ‘Japs Surrender’ Headline From Display Out Of Political Correctness
When did Jap become a racial slur?
Apparently the state of Kansas has issued more than 700 license plates containing a "racial slur."
The plates numbers were assigned by a random number/letter generator and ended up with the letter combination of "JAP." An old japanese guy (in California of course) saw one of these plates and wrote a letter to the Governor of Kansas to complain. Now the plates are being recalled.
I don't know what worse, being offended by random characters on a license plate, or being a politician that's so PC that you're willing to spend thousands of dollars to capitulate to this nonsense.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-new...nse-plates-over-ethnic-slur-complaint-n941076
Maybe enough people said something that they finally realized how they sound.
When did Jap become a racial slur?
It's pretty tame on the scale of "insensitive things to call Japanese people."
https://aphiemi.wordpress.com/2009/...ne-from-display-out-of-political-correctness/
VA Hospital Removes ‘Japs Surrender’ Headline From Display Out Of Political Correctness
When they started buying up America right and left.
FINALLY!!! A man who really DOES read Playboy just for the articles!Blind guy sues Playboy because it's website isn't "sight impaired" friendly: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blind-man-sues-playboy-apos-130818081.html#mycomments
I asked this same question several years ago of another INGO member, I can't remember his handle right now but it was bushidodevildog or something like that. He said that is on par with the feared "N" word in this country. On a slightly different note I've been told that the word "canuck" can be offensive to some of our northern neighbors. Not knowing the origins of either I find it hard to understand the power the words hold but I've never been one to let a word control me.
Blind guy sues Playboy because it's website isn't "sight impaired" friendly: https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/blind-man-sues-playboy-apos-130818081.html#mycomments