Comment on One slur to rule them all

• MagicShel@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I haven’t heard anyone use “Jap” outside my grandfather’s generation — and he fought a fucking war against them so no surprise he had some big feels there. But he’s also been dead about 25 years and I’ve never heard the word since.

  But also I don’t hang out with racists, so what do I know.

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  • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I once met a Chinese girl who was somewhat suspiciously fond of the English slang term (that I hadn’t heard of) “Jap’s Eye” which apparently means “urethral opening” and tbf I would never use the latter term either…

    OTOH I had heard the term from time to time and it always came across to me (not Japanese - important caveat) as a pretty mild one, like “frog” for the French. I would be very unsurprised if it were different in the USA though, where there was such a big impact from WW2 and internment.

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• TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How have I lived with a Jewish family all my life and never heard ‘Kyke’, yet I was well aware of ‘Faggot’ after only knowing about gay people for much less time?

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  • breezeblock@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Humans are a mysterious race.

    “F……, f……, f……, we can say it together — but only if you let a white girl say n……”

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• tdawg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Honestly most of these are out of fashion anyway

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