Clearly my position isn't clear.

For one I am not arguing about the term, I am arguing about its use in an historical context. If you think its racist, sure you are entitled to that. But that’s not what I am talking about.

I am saying that during the period of history that we are referring to, said term was used as an abbreviation as far as I can tell. Please correct me but I have seen a lot of news real footage and print. In the context that I beleive the term was used at the time, I view it as a typical "lazy" American abbreviation. I do not deny that there were strong racist feelings towards the Japanese during this time period, who could. But I think that connecting said term so concisely to said racism is short sighted and a mistake.

All I am arguing is that it was used, and in a historical context is quite pertinent to any discussion about this era.

Should we go back and edit all the various N words out of works done in the 19th century because we don't like them today?

But heck I love Japanese art, entertainment, culture, ect ect. Even have picked up a few words and sayings here and there. But what do I know.

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