Jap is short for Japanese. It’s akin to using “Brit” or Mex or Aussie or Viet or Dane or Swede or Rus.....
“Nip” is short for “Japanese”. “Jap” was what the enemy was called.
Jap is short for Japanese. It’s akin to using “Brit” or Mex or Aussie or Viet or Dane or Swede or Rus.....N****er is a bastardization of negro which just meant "black" originally. i.e. it's just an easier way to say "black". Does that make it any less racist? The connotations of a word are just as important as its meaning.