#3 2012-02-21 11:29:33
I used that term in front of a Filipino co-worker one time and he freaked out. I had no idea that he would get pissed by using "chink" in that situation. It was a simple mistake and he shouldn't have been fired.
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#5 2012-02-21 12:43:55
Banjo wrote:
I used that term in front of a Filipino co-worker one time and he freaked out. I had no idea that he would get pissed by using "chink" in that situation. It was a simple mistake and he shouldn't have been fired.
The correct derogatory term for a Filippino is "Flip" or "LBFM", unless you happen to be Japanese or Chinese then you just call them monkeys.
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#6 2012-02-21 12:49:36
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#7 2012-02-21 14:18:49
Protip: the correct way to spin accidentally making a racist pun a headline is not "I've done it about a hundred times".
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#8 2012-02-21 15:13:49
That's harsh, "a chink in the armor" is an age old saying and usually not the least bit racist.
The actual headline:
Chink in the Armor: Jeremy Lin's 9 Turnovers Cost Knicks in Streak-stopping Loss to Hornets
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#9 2012-02-21 15:34:31
Emmeran wrote:
Banjo wrote:
I used that term in front of a Filipino co-worker one time and he freaked out. I had no idea that he would get pissed by using "chink" in that situation. It was a simple mistake and he shouldn't have been fired.
The correct derogatory term for a Filippino is "Flip" or "LBFM", unless you happen to be Japanese or Chinese then you just call them monkeys.
I hate to argue but... I believe "zipperhead" is the correct term.
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#10 2012-02-21 18:10:13
Bigcat wrote:
I hate to argue but... I believe "zipperhead" is the correct term.
Technically speaking that's for Koreans.
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#11 2012-02-21 19:54:44
You make too much differentiation in these situations. Let me help. They are all WOGS regardless of where they come from, anything from Calais on.
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#12 2012-02-21 20:26:39
Dmtdust wrote:
You make too much differentiation in these situations. Let me help. They are all WOGS regardless of where they come from, anything from Calais on.
People from Calais, like all people from France, are properly referred to as FROGS, not WOGS!
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#13 2012-02-21 21:17:02
Wrong. Look it up, under: "Churchill".
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#14 2012-02-21 22:11:00
Can I play? Hereabouts, Eyetalians are guineas, ginzos, guidos or wops. Unless a mob of them corner you in a dark alley. Then it's, "Hey, Cousin Tony, it's me, Giuseppe!"
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#15 2012-02-21 22:18:33
choad wrote:
Can I play? Hereabouts, Eyetalians are guineas, ginzos, guidos or wops.
The only time I can recall Husband™ using an ethnic epithet un-sarcastically was when referring to the "guineas" he occasionally encountered while living in NYC in his youth. Even that didn't shock me as much as the time he referred to the same folks as "porch apes."
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#16 2012-02-21 22:19:25
They're all white devils to me.
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#17 2012-02-21 23:04:12
Here in America's Wang we just call them all Damn Yankees.
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#18 2012-02-22 00:02:58
Dmtdust wrote:
Wrong. Look it up, under: "Churchill".
Don't blame Churchill for that one. It was falsely attributed to him by a political opponent. From Wikipedia: The saying "The wogs begin at Calais" was originated by George Wigg, Labour MP for Dudley, in 1949. In a parliamentary debate concerning the Burmese, Wigg shouted at the Conservative benches, "The Honourable Gentleman and his friends think they are all 'wogs'. Indeed, the Right Honourable Member for Woodford [i.e. Winston Churchill] thinks that the 'wogs' begin at Calais."[9] Wigg's coinage, sometimes paraphrased as "Wogs start at the Channel" or "Wogs start at Dover", is used to characterise a "stodgy Europhobic" viewpoint, and more generally the view that Britain (more so England) is inherently separate from and superior to the Continent. In this case, "wog" is used to compare any foreign, non-British person to those more traditionally labelled "wogs".
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