Anyone who was alive at the time of these events still uses the term Jap. I do, for one. Call it a racial slur if you wish but it is a term that was used by us then and still used by us now. It is nothing to the terms the JAPS had for us at the time and many japs probably still use their derogatory terms.
Until they appologize for what they did in WWII to us, China, the phillipines and many others, I will continue to use the term jap. Thanks for the PC lesson, but I, and many others like me, don't need, or want, it.
Oh, yeah before I go, you won't read anymore because he said, oh, horrors, jap, this article is mostly, not all, but mostly, historically correct, saying jap doesn't change that.
Anyone who was alive at the time of these events still uses the term Jap. I do, for one. Call it a racial slur if you wish but it is a term that was used by us then and still used by us now. It is nothing to the terms the JAPS had for us at the time and many japs probably still use their derogatory terms.
My Dad was a Pharmacists Mate with a marine division that invaded Iwo Jima and Nagasaki. He still uses the term "Japs." I believe the Pacific War was a racist war of the first order. It was a fight to the death that can leave emotional scars. I think my Dad still harbors some bitterness toward Japanese. I find it difficult to be judgemental about it.
He has a friend at his church who is both Catholic and Nisei and likely doesn't want his friend killed. He also in rare moments, when he let's down what little hair he still has, will say Japanese Americans were treated disgracefully in having their lives destroyed when so many of them were innocent and patriotic Americans.
My dad served in the Pacific. He called a jap a jap till the day he died when the topic of WWII came up. I was not about to tell him about being pc, he would have knocked my head off.