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I am not a native English speaker, can someone update me on why nips is offensive?

• hooloovoo_zoo 8y ago
  "Nips" is slang for nipples and was a racial slur for the Japanese once upon a time. I don't think the former is really gender specific, and I don't think most people have heard it used in the latter way.
  • focom 8y ago
    I see thanks!
  • wink 8y ago
    Interesting, hadn't heard this yet. As an aside, a (German) acquaintance of mine was once harshly told to shut it and kicked from an open source project's IRC channel because he had (by accident) used the German form of "yep" instead of saying "yep" or "yes" - it's "jap". Wondering to this day how someone can be offended by the mere existence of a word in a different language that happens to map to another one in your language - if it just happens to appear, without context. I'm stressing this as the discussion had nothing to do with people or getting out of hand.
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• IshKebab 8y ago
  Apparently because it's short for nipples, and Americans don't like to be reminded that they exist.