The Insane "Social Justice" Thread II

[avboiler11]

I'd go visit HuffPo right now and read this drivel...but I'm too busy listening to "Baby Its Cold Outside"

 

[Dr.Midnight]

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?

 

[ArcadiaGP]

When did Jap become a racial slur?

It's pretty tame on the scale of "insensitive things to call Japanese people."

 

[JettaKnight]

When did Jap become a racial slur?

There's nothing more fun than coming in from my rose garden on a hot summer day and exclaiming, "I just killed seventeen japs!" and watching my wife cringe and roll her eyes.

 

[jamil]

Of course it's problematic. Rudolph never gets to give it to cute little Clarice. I'm changing my avatar to honor her.

That’s one way to problematize it.

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Media really has it in for Rudolph.

 

[actaeon277]

When did Jap become a racial slur?

https://aphiemi.wordpress.com/2009/...ne-from-display-out-of-political-correctness/
VA Hospital Removes ‘Japs Surrender’ Headline From Display Out Of Political Correctness

 

[ArcadiaGP]

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/

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.

 

[DoggyDaddy]

When did Jap become a racial slur?

I remember at least one member that took exception to calling 6.5x50 and 7.7x58 ammo "6.5 Jap" and "7.7 Jap" despite that that's what it's called on the factory boxes.

 

[actaeon277]

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/

Maybe enough people said something that they finally realized how they sound.

 

[spencer rifle]

https://aphiemi.wordpress.com/2009/...ne-from-display-out-of-political-correctness/
VA Hospital Removes ‘Japs Surrender’ Headline From Display Out Of Political Correctness

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"

 

[Leadeye]

When did Jap become a racial slur?

When they started buying up America right and left.

 

[Leadeye]

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

People who start wars and then lose them badly should take a moment to reflect about that.

People who cringe at the least criticism from the people who started the war that ended badly should just consider the source and ignore it.

 

[BugI02]

Maybe enough people said something that they finally realized how they sound.

Maybe they're more afraid of the Mossad than they are of Cesar Sayoc (they should be)

 

[ArcadiaGP]

Jordan Peterson is on Joe Rogan right now.

 

[femurphy77]

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

 

[femurphy77]

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.

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.

 

[Cameramonkey]

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

FINALLY!!! A man who really DOES read Playboy just for the articles!

 

[ArcadiaGP]

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.

Definitely not.

The Vancouver Canucks would have changed their name by now.

Jap is nowhere near the level of the word. Nip is probably a little closer.

 

[jamil]

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

Well, blind guys fap too.