[Tupelo]

What I find interesting is so many people find it so easy to use a slur to refer to the Japanese.
The same people would never refer to Italians as D**os or Mexicans as S**cs but feel it is just fine to to refer to Japanese as “Japs”. WWll has been over for over 60 years, I think it is time to start referring to the Japanese with the same respect as we do others.

[Tucker39]

Everybody in MY outfit called them GOOKS! Te rubber boots we bought downtown to WEAR downtown in the wintertime were called Gook Boots by all of us.

Things have actually become more genteel over the years. The term Jap shouldn’t be any more offensive to someone of Nippon extraction than the term Yank is to an American, as the Brits call us. Oh gee! Maybe “Brit” is offensive to the British.

[calex59]

Japs isn't a slur, it is a contraction of the word Japanese. The other two words you point out for Italian(dago) and Mexican(spic) are not contractions but names made up to make fun of the two peoples you mentioned and are considered slurs. Now if you were talking about the words "slant" or "slopehead" as applied to Japs and other oriental races you would have slurs. Japs and nips are merely a shortening of the names Japanese and Niponese, neither are intended, or used as, a slur.

BTW, Canuck is not a slur on the Canadians either.

[Nik Naym]

"WWll has been over for over 60 years, I think it is time to start referring to the Japanese with the same respect as we do others. "

Then they are going to have to change the name of these things:

[Last Dakotan]

I think it is time to start referring to the Japanese with the same respect as we do others.

Sure, if they got over their xenophobia enough to buy some US products.

No more racist society exists on Earth than Japan.