So going to share my story on the double standard when it comes to racism. Recently in trade chat I saw one guy spamming the n-word it gets reported 4 hours later I get a message that says “thank you for reporting”. So today I see a different guy spamming “chinaman” I reported it and I see no “thank you for reporting”. Both the n-word and “Chinaman” are racial slurs but one gets taken care right away while the other doesn’t. The slur “chinaman” was used during the 1900s in America during a time where Chinese nationalist had no rights and the Chinese exclusion act was born. So I’m wondering what’s going on with the in game GMs and why is it acceptable to be racist towards one enthic group compared to others?
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“Chinaman” refers to a native of China.
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Read the history of the meaning. Chinaman is a derogatory term used back in the early 1900s during the gold rush and the railroad construction.
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https:// www .collinsdictionary. com/dictionary/english/chinaman
It literally refers to a native of China. The other word doesn’t refer to a native African American person - its sole purpose of existing is to be racist toward them.
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Are you naive or plain stupid?
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I provided a source for you that supports my claim.
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This community is trash lol.
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And this is why America is still uneducated.
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Perhaps you could educate me as to why various sources (including dictionaries) say that it refers to a native of China, and doesn’t claim it as a racial slur?
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Google it bro troll harder.
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Googling it brings up that definition, ‘bro.’
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The history of the term “Chinaman” is telling: it is a word that invokes the 18th and 19th century American idiom “a Chinaman’s chance in hell”, which refers to how Chinese American coolies were given the most dangerous jobs in the building of the Central Pacific Railroad — tasked with running live dynamite into half-dug tunnels so that mountains might be blasted.
It is a relic of a time when Chinese Americans and other Asian Americans lacked most basic legal rights; when the vast majority worked as indentured servants; when rape, beatings and lynching were commonplace; when the life of an Asian American was jokingly worth so little, a common idiom arose around it.
Is there a source that goes along with this at all?
I’m also not American, genius.
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Considering Blizzards history of kissing Chinas backside, if anyone other than you thought it was offensive, it would have gotten a ban. Is it distasteful? Sure. Derogitory? Not so much. There are plenty of slurs for Asians that are actual slurs. I get that it is Sunday, but this is a stretch even for that excuse.
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All the comments defending this slur and ignoring the long dark history of it. This just shows how rampant anti Asian racism is in the wow community and find this behavior acceptable.
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I just want a legitimate source, that’s all. Realistically, considering you didn’t cover “Chinaman,” but covered the other word shows me it’s not really a racial slur.
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http:// reappropriate .co/2014/07/yes-the-term-chinaman-is-derogatory/
Remove the spaces and learn the history behind the word.
Last week, Wu wrote an article asking: [Is The Term ‘Chinaman’ Derogatory?] Wu asserts a (qualified) no.
He argues that the permissiveness of slurs is contextual and should depend primarily on whether members of the target group take offense. Paralleled with Wu’s own excuse of the term “Chinaman” in a recent production of Noel Coward’s Private Lives, the article leaves the reader with the impression that “Chinaman” is, itself, a largely inoffensive term
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Alright we’re done here obvious troll you see how he’s gaslighting me on the word still dense and refusing to acknowledge the long history of behind the word.
You provided your source, and it literally states that the ‘qualified’ individual in question says that the term is NOT derogatory.
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