Some 'terms' with historical past, never just 'fades away'.
As long as there are historical tragedies and atrocities, hostilities which have existed once before, there is no choice but to refrain from using terms which touch the past feelings in an unpleasant way.
This is a delicate problem, because as suggested in many other posts, what some one feels as 'derogatory' or 'insulting' greatly differs upon many people and their personal relationships with others involved with such terms.
For instance, some African-Americans shamelessly call upon others as "niggah", but if this term would be used from a white person to a black person, it would suddenly gain place as a severe insult. Likewise, some Japanese may not feel much when their personal friends or two, might refer them as a 'Jap', but to many other people, the term would still be greatly insulting.
In the case FD suggested in the pic, the person who comments such things obviously confuses the current timeline with the past, and brings in his own racial prejudice and ill feelings into the game. While nothing in this world, society can be totally neutral, some things people have to watch out all the more to try and keep it so.
Many people with many different backgrounds, many different relationships and histories, enjoy this game. When someone suddenly decides to bring his real world problems into the game, it becomes distasteful, aggressive, hostile and insulting. We've all seen how the "political discussions" can become ugly in the MA.
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While there is no absolute solution to this, frankly the only alternative to prevent such problems is for the people of the community to stop doing/saying it as a whole. Nobody can interfere with how one thinks, or what can be discussed in private. However, in the open one must be extra careful.
Frankly, as an acronym, logically "JP" is one letter shorter than "Jap", and easier to type, without the political problems hanging around it. In this case, it is pretty evident that nobody's gonna lose any sleep because they can't type the extra "A" between the "J" and the "P"
So if someone speaks out in a request that doesn't harm anyone, and rather prevents other forms of harm and sad occasions from happening inside the MA, hey sure, why not? We should respect that.
"Atrocity", no other country has seen and received like mine. Trust me, every child in our country grows up with those stories... and yet it is fortunate that many people thankfully smart enough to tell the difference between "learning from the past" and "counter-prejudice based on the past".
Many Japanese pilots are good of skill and heart, and are respected members of this community. I've met FD from the day I've started AH, and despite whatever lies between in reality, he's a good Japanese friend to many Rooks. It is unfortnate he would have to go through such distasteful considerations, concerning terms that are involved with racial discriminations.
As a friend, I would also greatly appreciate it if the community would respect FD's request.
to FD
