sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 1 minute ago, 19QOS19 said: 3 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: In all this madness we've established that Japan is the most bigoted place on earth so it's been a productive day nonetheless. They make excellent products though. That's the most important thing. That's the Chinese these days. Are you suggesting they all look alike?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: In all this madness we've established that Japan is the most bigoted place on earth so it's been a productive day nonetheless. Sounds like my kind of place... Spoiler If it wasn't full of god-damned Japanese Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 50 minutes ago, sjc said: No it doesn't. My daughter is called a "hafu" (the equivalent of "half cast" in Japan) on a daily basis by sweet, well meaning elderly people. There's no offence taken because there was none intended. This is a fucking topper, tbh. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, Dele said: This is a fucking topper, tbh. Explain? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 6 minutes ago, sjc said: Damn those octogenarians coming up an showering my daughter with praise and attention. Hell mend them for not using the politically correct terminology to describe her ethnicity! Probably sizing you up to work you both to death on a new Burma railway. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, sjc said: Explain? That you're letting folk racially abuse your daughter because you see them as "sweet, well meaning elderly people". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, Sergeant Wilson said: Probably sizing you up to work you both to death on a new Burma railway. They did give me a job playing a POW in a movie last year.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 1 minute ago, Dele said: That you're letting folk racially abuse your daughter because you see them as "sweet, well meaning elderly people". If nobody involved considers the use of the term pejorative, how can it be abusive? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, Dele said: That you're letting folk racially abuse your daughter because you see them as "sweet, well meaning elderly people". Acknowledging her race doesn't make it abusive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dele said: That you're letting folk racially abuse your daughter because you see them as "sweet, well meaning elderly people". There's nothing contextually racist or abusive in what they're saying. My wife isn't offended by it either and she has experienced real racism. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 47 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Saggy Vulvas Played up front for Lithuania in the 2012 qualifiers IIRC. 12 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sergeant Wilson Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, Joey Jo Jo Junior Shabadoo said: Played up front for Lithuania in the 2012 qualifiers IIRC. He was the goalkeeper when Scitland played them, hence the reason no-one remembers him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Derry Alli Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 4 minutes ago, welshbairn said: If nobody involved considers the use of the term pejorative, how can it be abusive? Is this how we are going to determine racism now? 3 minutes ago, Dons_1988 said: Acknowledging her race doesn't make it abusive. Calling her "impure" certainly is offensive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gordon EF Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 1 minute ago, Dele said: Is this how we are going to determine racism now? Calling her "impure" certainly is offensive. Genuine question but how else would you determine it? Also, that's clearly not what hafu means. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dons_1988 Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, Dele said: Is this how we are going to determine racism now? Calling her "impure" certainly is offensive. I interpreted it as a word that merely acknowledged she was mixed race, even if the literal translation is 'impure'. And certainly offensive to who? you? The reason so many terms are offensive here is not because they simply reference race but because they are loaded with a history of hatred and violence. If this word doesn't have all that baggage in Japan, it just a word for mixed race, then what is the issue? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 2 minutes ago, Dele said: Calling her "impure" certainly is offensive. In what way, shape or form were they calling her impure? You're the only one that's suggested that, you inferring racist, you! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 3 minutes ago, Dele said: Is this how we are going to determine racism now? Calling her "impure" certainly is offensive. Mixed race people in Japan refer to themselves as hafu and don't resent the term. It's just a description. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robin.Hood Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Mixed race people in Japan refer to themselves as hafu and don't resent the term. It's just a description. Does it make it correct? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
welshbairn Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 1 minute ago, G_Man1985 said: 4 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Mixed race people in Japan refer to themselves as hafu and don't resent the term. It's just a description. Does it make it correct? Yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjc Posted September 27, 2019 Share Posted September 27, 2019 Just now, G_Man1985 said: 3 minutes ago, welshbairn said: Mixed race people in Japan refer to themselves as hafu and don't resent the term. It's just a description. Does it make it correct? If it's good enough for Black people to use the N word....... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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