Category Archives: asian american

When the JPNZ say “JAP”

We’re making great headway in the United States in getting public names changed when they are reflections of an older era when racially charged terms were considered acceptable, or at least, not controversial.

Thanks, Michelle!

Thank you very much, Michelle Malkin. Thanks a bunch for writing your book, “In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror.” Thanks for trying to prove that not only was putting Japanese Americans into U.S. concentration camps during World War II the right thing to […]

Blade runners

Samurai are big in Western pop culture these days, what with Tom Cruise’s hit “The Last Samurai” and of course, Quentin Tarantino’s “Kill Bill” movies.

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You’d think in the 21st century, that racial epithets would be so old-fashioned that anyone using them would be laughed out of the country. But no, that’s not the case. At issue today, as it has been for decades, is the use of the word “Jap” to describe a person or thing that’s Japanese or […]