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Bleeping 'Jap' and 'Nip' on tv

posted 11 years ago by jejozi
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I'm watching this on Movies TV and they're actually bleeping "Japs" and "Nips" in a WWII pacific theater movie. lol

This will be the high point of my day; it's all downhill from here.

[–] pgharett-676-553123 10 years ago

That's our modern PC thought police. Sure there have always been some anti-Japanese sentiment which I don't condone. But they call themselves Nipponese. Jap and Nip could be slurs, but also could have just been short for Japanese and Nipponese. People also have to remember that Japan and Germany started the War. Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, we declared war the next day, Hitler declared war on the US and we reciprocated soon after. What's worse? An unprovoked attack on Pearl Harbor killing 2400 Americans, or calling someone a Jap in a war movie? Only a moron would bleep that.

[–] Vega_Lyra 10 years ago

That's pretty sad.

I remember my Grandpa (who fought in WW2 in the Pacific) called Toyota's, etc. "Jap" cars and would make comments about the folks that drove them.

Conquer your fear, and I promise you, you will conquer death.

[–] baran_erik 10 years ago

I lived in Nebraska when they changed their licence plates to the Sun setting on the Plains with beams of light coming off it. There was a big uproar from the WWll vets, threatening to not put them on their car because it looked like the Rising Sun battle flag.

[–] rudykawa 9 years ago

Some americans still believing in the unprovoked surprise attack theory.
Wonder what kind of history is taught in some schools.

Just like japanese students don't know about the cruelties in japanese invasion of China.

Maybe it's a way that some countries find to never really tell the truth for their own citizens.

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[–] movies789 9 years ago

The Japanese slaughters, bombings, rapes, tortures, murders, starvations, medical experimentations, and enslavements of the peoples it invaded throughout the Pacific Theater, from Burma to Alaska, were unprovoked, too. May we condemn those?

[–] jstang411 8 years ago

Some americans still believing in the unprovoked surprise attack theory.

Surprise it was. No denying it was "an attack" Guess the rest of that statement hinges on what you think proper "provocation" is for attacking another country.

[–] fmvd2000 8 years ago

Oh the president knew war was probably coming. In late November 1941 he was at a thanksgiving vacation at a hot spring with fellow polio survivors and said he had to go back to Washington early because there would be war next week.

The surprise was the attack on Hawaii, they were just expecting attacks in SE Asia and the Philippines

[–] baran_erik 8 years ago

Lol. You CTs are so funny. FDR casually told civilians what would have been top secret information. Lol. Thanks for the laugh.

[–] fmvd2000 8 years ago

In 3rd grade in the 1970's I was actually surprised when my teacher who had been an Amy nurse near the action would get this mean look on her face and go on about Japs and Nips. I don't think a teacher can do that now days

[–] SealordJohn 8 years ago

This sounds like a double standard in broadcasting. When I watch reruns of "All In The Family" on cable television today, I can clearly hear Archie Bunker referring to certain races by their non-politically correct nicknames.

[–] baran_erik 8 years ago

I guess it depends on the channel. I heard it OTA, not on cable, so the FCC would have been involved if anyone complained.

[–] marktayloruk (2378) 3 years ago

They should never cut films on TV If anyone complains, remind them of what the Japs did back then.