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>You really want to test everyone's patience, don't you?

Don't project your frustrations as a means to appeal to popularity.

>"Oriental" became a slur

According to whom?

>just as "negro"

No, not the same. "negro" is an offensive term to black people.

>instead appropriates that culture and makes a mockery of it

Can you explain to me in the quote from the document where the 'mockery' is?

"The fact of the matter is that this bias, and its glaring ignorance of the real value of such a large amount of so-called "redundancy" continues to this very day, and thus continues to be a chafing-point between Orientals and misguided Westerners."



> According to whom

Wikipedia gives a summary with respect to the American use of the word (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orient#American_English):

"John Kuo Wei Tchen, director of the Asian/Pacific/American Studies Program and Institute at New York University, said the basic critique of the term developed in U.S.A. in the 1970s. Tchen has said: "With the U.S.A. anti-war movement in the '60s and early '70s, many Asian Americans identified the term 'Oriental' with a Western process of racializing Asians as forever opposite 'others'."[10]"


Maybe you haven't been paying attention, but there's a lot of friction in very concrete cases of mockery like various sports team names and mascots, especially the Cleveland Indians.

Their mascot is literally a caricature of an "indian". It's from a time when that sort of thing was acceptable because we didn't have to listen to such voices. We'd just sweep them off to reservations and strip them of their dignity and rights. Great times.

So if you want to presume Oriental isn't a slur, go right ahead and keep using it. Just don't raise a fuss if someone comes to you and says "You might not want to use that word, it's got certain connotations."


You haven't responded at all to my questions, which implies you have no response and there isn't any substance to your argument.


It's called I've written you off as someone who's tone deaf and there's no point in discussing this further.

I'd rather explain the concept of color to dogs.




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