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Originally Posted by harryE123
thank you very much too Yokai tree. Of course in your code of politeness it doesn't cross you mind that accusing someone with offensive epithets such as "racist" in a baseless way is to say the least rude. Of course it's also colossally presumptuous.
Btw, where in my later post am I racist, in saying that Sony hasn't developed a linux variant. Ridiculous.
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I'm not calling you a racist because of what you say about Linux and you know it. I'm calling you a racist because you use a racial slur. The first time you used it may have been a mistake, out of ignorance. If so, the proper response to when you have used a term that you did not know was considered to be a racial slur would have been to say "I'm sorry, I didn't realize that was offensive, I won't do it again", not to try to defend the phrase as "not as bad as the "n word." And I'll backtrack a bit-- that response doesn't
necessarily make you a racist-- but it
does cast a very poor image on you.
I'm not Japanese or even Asian, but I would no more call someone from Japan a "Jap" than I would call someone from China a "Chink" or Vietnam a "Gook"-- and I hope that you wouldn't, either. All three terms were used during their respective wars as slurs to dehumanize the enemy, just as "the n-word" is used as a dehumanizing slur. (I have no idea how Germans feel about being called "Jerries.")
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