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Does a Japanese person have to worry walking around in modern day society? Do you know any Japanese people in North America that get shot in the back or can't get work or get forced to live in what amounts to glorified refugee camps (ghettos / reserves) for hundreds of years generation after generation? Internment during a war isn't right, but it =/= a lifetime of oppression.
The fact you don't even know that indigenous people DO call each other by names within their own communities that they would consider racist if YOU said it to them shows how out of touch you are. Notice something in common between natives and blacks? They're the only 2 races that have suffered centuries of oppression by white people. Interesting huh? They'll stop talking about it within their own communities when white people stop oppressing them. Some might say they're both too fucked that it can't happen, maybe that's true, but who fucked them in the first place? You called it the standardization of a "disgusting" word....... bro... you just do not get it... it's not a disgusting word to THEM. See what happens when you stop thinking only from your own privileged perspective for a second? Wow.
It's painfully obvious to everyone thatou have ZERO firsthand knowledge of anything you're talking about, therefore everything you're saying is complete conjecture. Tell me I'm wrong? I know I'm not, because it's clear you've never immersed yourself in any of these cultures or spent any time in their squalor.
Wait... I'm psychic I can feel what you're thinking... why don't they just work harder like the Japnese or Chinese people that have been oppressed but succeeded now? Ever stop to look at the history? White people never oppressed any of these cultures at the source. White people never ran China, white people never controlled Japan... white people DO control Africa (and outside Africa, look who owns ALL the islands in the Caribbean that are full of black people servicing who?), white people DID invade North America and took indigenous people's way of life away from them. THAT is the difference, these people had their culture appropriated out from under them from the very origins of it. There's a microcosm of this even just within Asia where the Chinese oppress the Philippines and treat them as a slave culture to their wealthy. Starting to make sense now? Probably not, you're blind and you think you're not a part of it just because you've never personally done anything to anyone.
At the end of the day though, who are you to tell another race which words they can or can not use to communicate and identify with one another because it makes you uncomfortable and you don't get to use it too? Sounds like the definition of privilege to me.
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