An unfortunate series of words were uttered... luckily the only people around were also parents of toddlers who understand that kids sometimes put random words together.nebenbaum t1_ja7cjt2 wrote
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I'm not a native English speaker - when I was younger, I was chatting in a server about Japan and was too lazy to write "Japanese", so I shorthanded it to jap, instead of jp or jpn, because hey, first three letters, right?
Suddenly people got very angry, I was very confused until someone told me that apparently American war propaganda used "jap" as a derogatory term during ww2. Bruh, people can be overly sensitive. I've never heard anyone use that shorthand since, especially not in a derogatory way.
DeadlyRaptor2149 t1_jadu6ov wrote
I agree, sometimes it's a bit ridiculous.
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