"Jap"

[HAL9000]

Right. Let's change historical art in order to mold it based on today's sensitivities. /facepalm


I'm sure you agreed with whacko-fundi John Ashcroft covering up nude statues in Washington? After all, breasts offend some people.

:thumbsup:

 

[IronWing]

Start your own TV network. Problem solved.

 

[dank69]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhl1rY1quR0

:whiste:

 

[a777pilot]

the world wonders

Good one!

Where is Adm "Bull" Halsey and his fleet.

Well played.

 

[Fear No Evil]

OP, I grew up in a world where Jap was commonly used with no particular insult or derogation meant. Much, much later, I learned that Japanese-Americans took exception to it as being offensive, so I learned to stop using it, because I'm a civilized adult and I know that there is no reason in the world to needlessly offend others.

I just didn't need to stamp my little feet and bleat about my FWEEDOM.

You could take the high road, be an adult, and do the same, you know.

Pot.. Kettle.. Black..

This "good friend of yours" is YOU, isn't it, you unhappy, ignorant loser.

Your fake 10 year old granddaughter is really a wrinkled and humor challenged right-wing chain e-mail forwarder, but if she were real, she'd be saying:

"Daddy, Grandpa Stupid is pestering us with his idiot chain e-mails again. Can we poison his Ensure, Daddy, can we, huh, can we?"

Yeah, nutjobs like you should wander around armed. :thumbsdown:

You cared enough to post, loser.

Time and again, in ways big and small, you relentlessly keep reminding us what a clueless ass you are.

What was that about being an adult who doesn't needlessly insult others again?

Nevermind the fact that the OP wasn't USING the term himself, but was talking about it being censored from movies using it in historical context.

 

[a777pilot]

Yeah, racism is awesome. :rolleyes;

Then you don't know your history of the Japanese people. They were and remain, one, if not the, most racist people on the face of the earth.

 

[BeauJangles]

Then you don't know your history of the Japanese people. They were and remain, one, if not the, most racist people on the face of the earth.

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Plus, it's not like America was some innocent shining beacon of equality when it came to the Japanese. Racism against the Japanese was prevelent in this country throughout the first half
of the 20th century and played an enormous role in our pursuit and execution of the Pacific half of WW2.

 

[Fear No Evil]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Plus, it's not like America was some innocent shining beacon of equality when it came to the Japanese. Racism against the Japanese was prevelent in this country throughout the first half
of the 20th century and played an enormous role in our pursuit and execution of the Pacific half of WW2.

How exactly is a 50 year old film using the term 'Jap' in its historical context racist? Should we prevent movies from using the the N-word when discussing the race issues of the 60's as well? Just stick our heads in the sand and pretend it never happened?

 

[a777pilot]

Two wrongs don't make a right.

Plus, it's not like America was some innocent shining beacon of equality when it came to the Japanese. Racism against the Japanese was prevelent in this country throughout the first half
of the 20th century and played an enormous role in our pursuit and execution of the Pacific half of WW2.

That is true but to deny that the Japanese people were not just as much racists is to deny history.

I think it funny that we as a people are now so sensitive that we must be protected from ourselves and our history.

Censorship is wrong.

...'nuff said.

 

[Red Dawn]

Pot.. Kettle.. Black..











What was that about being an adult who doesn't needlessly insult others again?

Nevermind the fact that the OP wasn't USING the term himself, but was talking about it being censored from movies using it in historical context.

Seems like he's not the only one keeping notes.

 

[zinfamous]

I can't comprehend the American censorship system, it's insanity. "Yippee Ki Ay Mr Falcon" what the fuck is that?!

hey, why don't you go find a stranger in the Alps!

 

[zinfamous]

Right. Let's change historical art in order to mold it based on today's sensitivities. /facepalm


I'm sure you agreed with whacko-fundi John Ashcroft covering up nude statues in Washington? After all, breasts offend some people.

I'm just gonna put this right here....


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/huckleberry-finn-edition-censors-n-word

 

[Red Dawn]

That is true but to deny that the Japanese people were not just as much racists is to deny history.

I think it funny that we as a people are now so sensitive that we must be protected from ourselves and our history.

Censorship is wrong.

...'nuff said.

I wonder if they'd be as offended if they replaced Jap with Nip. Are German Americans offended by the words Kraut, Jerry or Hun?

 

[Whiskey16]

I wonder if they'd be as offended if they replaced Jap with Nip. Are German Americans offended by the words Kraut, Jerry or Hun?

...or blacks being labelled as 'Bobo' as in Bobo the chimp?

On private networks it's their call to avoid offending their market. By all means it is within a channel's and internet forum's right to bleep out offensive words.

 

[a777pilot]

...or blacks being labelled as 'Bobo' as in Bobo the chimp?

On private networks it's their call to avoid offending their market. By all means it is within a channel's and internet forum's right to bleep out offensive words.

Bobo, as I am want to use at every occasion has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the stated definition....."The Anointed One".

But nice try at a deflection.

p.s., It's Bobo the Clown and Bonzo the Chip.

 

[DucatiMonster696]

I'm just gonna put this right here....


http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/05/huckleberry-finn-edition-censors-n-word

This isn't the US I know and love. This most be some alternate world where everyone has gone insane kind of like in that old b-scifi tv show called Sliders. Fuck! I need to find that damn timer and make sure I slide out of this hell hole before am stuck here for 26 years.

 

[Whiskey16]

p.s., It's Bobo the Clown and Bonzo the Chip.

More common to be Bozo the clown, Bozo.... Bobo as an ape is common, and quite telling in that you will not recognise that fact.

Bobo, as I am want to use at every occasion has nothing to do with race. It has everything to do with the stated definition....."The Anointed One".

Pure nonsense. Bobo for Barack Obama because Bobo is commonly viewed to be black and it's demeaning -- common bigotry among segments of the US population -- to depict the man to a chimp/gorilla.

 

[Jaskalas]

Wtf... I guess 'jerries' is derogatory now too and must be censored? Gotta be fair you know.

Pathetic.

Yankee must also be censored.

 

[jman19]

I take offense to this derogatory term.

Please stop making fun of Jewish American Princesses

 

[a777pilot]

More common to be Bozo the clown, Bozo.... Bobo as an ape is common, and quite telling in that you will not recognise that fact.

Pure nonsense. Bobo for Barack Obama because Bobo is commonly viewed to be black and it's demeaning -- common bigotry among segments of the US population -- to depict the man to a chimp/gorilla.

You're right. It's Bozo the Clown. Thanks for the correction.