Is 'Japs' considered racist in the U.S.?
I recently got a 3 day ban from Facebook for posting this on a post about how ISIS treat their captives.
"If you people think that ISIS are bad, the Japs wrote the book on sick ways to torture people in WWII, I mean some really sick twisted stuff"
And that was it. I thought I was making quite a good point, as the Japs did indeed treat their prisoners worse than animals, my grandparents would attest to that! In fact I don't think there's any denying that they treated their prisoners worse than anybody else.
I obviously know that POW's didn't have a smooth run no matter where or by whom they were captured, but the Japanese came up with the bamboo came up the ass, up the finger nails, pretty much up anywhere. Then there's the "Japanese water torture", apparently so synonymous with Japan that it was named after them!
So I don't think there's really any arguing with my point, did I get banned for saying "Japs"?
Because in the UK it's just an abbreviation of Japanese, nothing derogatory about it.
I was confused about this one.