This is terrifying. I visited Pearl Harbor and it was eerily quiet and very somber. It was beautiful but it definitely has the feeling of “oh yea – so many people lost their lives here”
That’s nothing. At a local funeral home they have one from the end of the war and it’s a large cover picture of a boot stomping a rat with highly exaggerated Japanese features.
Metal scrap drives at the time had a slogan something like “Donate scrap to kill a Jap”. Special pins were given away for reaching milestones (my mother had one recognizing 10 pounds).
You probably could actually, most people (including Japanese) really couldn’t care less about it. As it turns out, just claiming something is a slur and giving it an internet wiki page doesn’t retroactively make it offensive.
I think people might not have the chicken and the egg historical context.
Terms like “Japs” or “Nips” were like using “Brits” at the time before the war, or the build up to the war. Convenient abbreviation, but not yet a slur, even though anti Asian racism was definitely a thing at the time.
Going through total war and a fully propagandized wartime society turned those terms into slurs. Now those terms are forever tainted.
Bigoted people are good at turning “normal” descriptors into slurs, which creates a cycle in language as new descriptions appear and are potentially co-opted.
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This is terrifying. I visited Pearl Harbor and it was eerily quiet and very somber. It was beautiful but it definitely has the feeling of “oh yea – so many people lost their lives here”
Because of the use of “Japs”? Which is short for Japanese and better fitting in a title?
I’m really asking.
True. That’s the last time we’ve legally and constitutionally gone to war.
Think about that…
True. 82-0. Senate 100% agreement. Definitely could not get away with at these days.
Now I’m curious about the last line with the Nazis and Moscow
Didn’t we have 96 senators back then? (Before Hawaii and Alaska were states.)
So who were the slackers?
BuT tHe ImPeRiAl ArMy WeReN’t tHe JaPaNeSe PeOpLe!
What means „AEF“ ?
Yeah the title doesn’t have enough click bait.
That’s nothing. At a local funeral home they have one from the end of the war and it’s a large cover picture of a boot stomping a rat with highly exaggerated Japanese features.
I’d bet that if we were to declare war on Japan, I don’t think papers would have reservations using the word Jap
My grandad used to call them little yellow men 😭. Times have changed, I don’t personally think “japs” Is offensive though is it?
When Obama was elected, one of the major papers in the Philippines headline was, “the Whitehouse is now the blackhouse”
Metal scrap drives at the time had a slogan something like “Donate scrap to kill a Jap”. Special pins were given away for reaching milestones (my mother had one recognizing 10 pounds).
1500 dead.
Honestly they should have just called a ceasefire after the battle of midway.
Countries at war generally don’t concern themselves with how they might be offending the country they’re at war with
You probably could actually, most people (including Japanese) really couldn’t care less about it. As it turns out, just claiming something is a slur and giving it an internet wiki page doesn’t retroactively make it offensive.
I feel like of all the “racial slurs”, Jap has to be one of the more mild and lazy I’ve ever heard.
Yes after they murdered 1500 people, sure wouldn’t want to offend them.
Why is this sub called Pics when shit like this, with finger covering part of camera lens, is upvoted
The word “Jap” is just the way you say Japanese in Singlish to this day*. It’s not considered pejorative, just abbreviated.
*And perhaps elsewhere, but that’s the bit I know.
If a sovereign nation (Russia, France, China, whatever) were to sneak attack an American base (on American soil) and kill 2k, they’d agree no doubt.
I think your post does speak to the political polarization in Congress, but also to the lack of a singular thing to unify around.
I can’t stand the people in here who can’t take the 12 seconds to Google why “J*p” is a slur. Christ dude
Ok boomer
We could if they just launched an unprovoked sneak attack that resulted in the deaths of thousands of servicemen and hundreds of civilians.
What, the 82-0 vote part?
I think people might not have the chicken and the egg historical context.
Terms like “Japs” or “Nips” were like using “Brits” at the time before the war, or the build up to the war. Convenient abbreviation, but not yet a slur, even though anti Asian racism was definitely a thing at the time.
Going through total war and a fully propagandized wartime society turned those terms into slurs. Now those terms are forever tainted.
Bigoted people are good at turning “normal” descriptors into slurs, which creates a cycle in language as new descriptions appear and are potentially co-opted.
You couldn’t get away with that fucking type kerning today either, Jesus.
Why is saying “the Japs” in reference to the Japanese considered bigotry but “the Poles” in reference to the Polish not?
Yeah because if Japan attacked us today and killed 1500 people we should definitely have a politically correct headline so we don’t offend anyone.
Well we had the Japanese in internment camps in the US, and took away all their homes and property so yeah….