Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/15
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]And in response to Eve's gentle post, where she comments that: On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 01:02 PM, Eve Girard wrote: > > Jeffery Smith sez: >> Free speech is one thing, but "Jap" is inflammatory. > > I may have missed the event, but have not yet noted a person of > Japanese > origin complaining about the "unfortunate" word. FYI, the following message, posted earlier on this list, is from a friend of mine of Japanese extraction: "Just a reminder that WWII ended in 1945, and that "jap" is a racial slur and no better than "n*gger", "sp*c", "w*p", "ch*nk", "d*go" or "k*ke" --or "wh*tey". Which I agree with completely. Will von Dauster Who did not appreciate being called a "kraut" - and worse - as a child in the 1950s and 60s. - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html