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19886045 No.19886045[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

Why are words like "Jap" for Japanese or "tranny" for a transsexual/transgender considered pejorative? They literally come from the word that it's used to define these populations in a generic way.

>> No.19886093

Because most people are not autistic and understand context.

>> No.19886102

Never met a person that used them that thought positively about either group. There you go, context.

>> No.19886109

>>19886102
I use Jap all the time as a short form of Japanese and I use it to describe Japanese things I like.

>> No.19886120

>>19886045
>Jap
Uh... I've been using this all the time, including IRL. I didn't know it was considered offensive.

>> No.19886126

>>19886120
Same but I will continue to use it.

>> No.19886128
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19886128

>>19886045
Americans/anglos always get weird when I call polacks "polacks", which is what we call them in my language and what they call themselves. Apparently it's derogatory in english.

>> No.19886132

>>19886093
fpbp /thread
jannies!

>> No.19886149

No one thinks 'Germs' is pejorative.

>> No.19886554

I say Nip out of respect to the japanese name Nippon.

>> No.19886786
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19886786

>"But negro just means "black"!
Historical context matters. After a decade of Americans using jap as a pejorative during the war, it became a pejorative. If all of /pol/ decided tomorrow to use '"trans" instead of "tranny" in their posts bashing transgender people it would become a pejorative in the future as well

>> No.19886844

>>19886786
I still call them negroes online and IRL

>> No.19886867

>>19886844
That's okay, plenty of people have autism

>> No.19886871

>>19886867
t. negro

>> No.19886930

>>19886786
my uncle says negro but I guess we aren't in America and he is 89 we're black btw

>> No.19887172

>>19886930
Old black people in America still use the word negro.

>> No.19887238

>>19886128
this is the one i never understood. it really is like saying the word "german" or "russian" is an ethnic slur

>> No.19887290

People are rewarded for being offended. It gives them attention and is considered justification for aggressive retaliation. So they are continually inventing new ways to become offended.

>> No.19887322
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19887322

Why is Jew considered a slur when it’s the normal English word to refer to them?

>> No.19887333

>>19886045
Because they are almost exclusively said in contexts where the speaker is very clearly derisive about his subject, in addition to being dumbed down versions of relatively long words, implying that the subject isn't even worth of the effort of using its longer name.

>> No.19887367

I always thought Jap was a cool word. If I were a Jap I'd want to be called a Jap. Nice and short, just like a Jap.

"Japanese person" vs. Jap, or Nip. Obviously Jap or Nip is better. Same problem with trannies, nobody wants to say "trans person" for fuck's sake. If we have to acknowledge these FREAKS, might as well have a convenient word for them.

Personally I like to say "transvestite" until they correct me. Then I say sorry, I thought it meant the same thing, and then let them explain the difference, then I just keep saying transvestite anyway.

>> No.19887448

>>19887367
casual transphobia as usual. Probably jerks off to shemale midget porn

>> No.19887548

>>19886554
Everything I hear nip I can't help but hear this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp5_Ul-qG0w
Doesn't matter if they mean nipples

>> No.19887552

>>19886786
They tried to phase out negro on census forms and lots of old black people got het. For them, negro is the polite and scientific term.

>> No.19887654

>>19886045
a pejorative becomes a pejorative through use, not etymology
I can make African American a pejorative if I get in a black guys face and say it like some Brooklyn wop all “OH! look at dis fucking African American ova here!”

>> No.19887879

>>19886045
>Why are words like "Nigger" for Negroids considered pejorative?
>They literally come from the word that it's used to define these populations in a generic way.

>> No.19887891

>>19887448
Make yourself trans-parent, troon, and begone! Thine foul odor doth attract the pol-ack sewage.

>> No.19888500

>>19886045
Does it hurt being stupid sweetheart?

>> No.19888506

>>19888500
Not really, sweetie. Policing my language hurts more.