JKTim wrote:
Scrooge4747 wrote:
I'm sorry, I can't hear you over the sound of my high-powered machine gun and the yells and cries of hundreds of dying japs!"
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Ugh. 
I'm sorry, Trekker, but I just can't let that one slide, no more than I could any other racial slur of the sort. I have to give you an infraction for that. |
Context!
Trekker was just being faithful to the language of the period. What happened to the spirit of parody?
Not superheroes' greatest hour of glory
Plus a word search brings up these unwarned occurrences - context being similar.
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=...highlight=japs
http://trekbbs.com/showthread.php?p=...ps#post1936920
It all looks harmless to me.