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I love the little "Insert Coin For Resources" pop-up on the screenshot.

Awesome news Lazarraga. Thank you for reviving the tourney!

It's pretty fascinating to see how split the community is about this issue.

It isn't so much the word that is the issue but instead the history and imagery that word conjures up. The United States waged massive and extremely effective propaganda war aimed at dehumanizing the Japanese during WWII and in all those posters, movie reels, etc. the Japanese were referred to as either "Japs" or "Nips". The propaganda was so enduring that those originally neutral words became permanently associated with the derogatory and dehumanizing imagery of that era in countries that fought in the Pacific War.

When you say "Jap" to a person whose country was not exposed to that propaganda they might picture something like this:



But when you say "Jap" to an American you are conjuring up images and negativity like this:



While "Jap" may have been a neutral term at first it became a derogatory slur in the US and other countries that fought in the Pacific largely due to it's association with the dehumanizing propaganda of the era. A person not exposed to that shared cultural history would have a very different understanding of the word than one who was.

Like if Bears could handle a keyboard with their paws... Fake.

Napalm hard at work:

I can't speak for the rest of the world but "Jap" is most certainly considered an ethnic slur in California. "Nip" would be too if anyone actually still used that word.

Edit: Shadowwada beat me to the punch.