Originally posted by Knuckle sandwich
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The term itself isn’t racist. The perception that it is purely stretches back to the second world war and its use primarily in the USA. There were plenty of other genuinely racist terms used to refer to the Japanese at the time. Jap wasn’t one of them. It’s just an abbreviation. You can’t invent a racist term out of a plain abbreviation by claiming it is. Unless of course you’re a “******” - I think was the term used.
But yeah it’s a boxing forum so thus endeth the lesson.
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