Japs......The definition !

[KameLeon]

Valhalla1, It depends on the person you say that to..
If you had said that to me, I would pick A.

 

[SoyBoy004]

alpha ivt LOL!!!! very funny!!!

 

[Valhalla1]

you obviously didn't read the M5 vs. Corvette thread...

someone disagrees with my view of japanese imports, so they decide to crap on a healthy car thread accusing me of being.. QUOTE a "trailer trash racists" (who's the racist again?) because I said "I don't like Jap. cars"


then they decide I must be a redneck white trash Japanese-hating racist and tries to humiliate me

 

[Talon]

I would agree with loogie and stony about it not being the words themselves that should be considered offensive. It's more about the manner in which they are used.

JAP

 

[Moonbeam]

How hard can it be to be respectful?

 

[loogie]

This whole thing reminds me of the whole incident where David Howard resigned because of the outrage over his use of the word Niggardly.

I found this quote particularly fitting:


<< &quot;I just feel very pleased that this whole thing has a silver lining,&quot; he said. &quot;The silver lining is that this has led to a discussion that can help everyone understand each other better. . . . I used to think it would be great if we could all be colorblind. That's naive, especially for a white person, because a white person can't afford to be colorblind. They don't have to think about race every day. An African American does.&quot; >>

 

[Valhalla1]

<< That's naive, especially for a white person, because a white person can't afford to be colorblind. They don't have to think about race every day. An African American does.&quot; >>
>>




Gotta disagree with that. White people have to always watch every word they say, because the slightest thing can be blown into huge disproportion because a minority &quot;takes offense&quot; to something that was obviously not racist. IE - the insident with &quot;niggardly&quot;. and my abbreviation for &quot;Japanese cars&quot; suddenly makes me a racist

 

[dafatha00]

do you KNOW why it would blow into a huge disproportion??? take a walk down history lane...i mean, sure some whites do watch what they say around others but a lot really don't care what happens if they do use racial slurs