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"Star Wars stereotypes: Not a force for good" — Page 5

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SilverWook said:

TheBoost said:

Fun fact, my Grandpa fought in Europe, mostly Italy, during the War. 

He once told me that you could tell where a man fought by what racial slurs they used. He didn't know that 'Nip' was a racial slur until the 1970s, because men in the European theater of war used 'Jap,' and when he'd heard 'Nip' he'd assumed it was a normal term, like 'Brit.'


Funny how in TCW, clone troopers often call battle droids, "clankers" but apparently never utter slang terms for any of their flesh and blood opponents. ;)

 Thye should, slurs give taste to a language. Alsoe slurs are never the problem, denying people rights and so on are.

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Slurs can demonstrate where there are prejudices in society, how relatively acceptable they are, and what form they take. In sci-fi and fantasy, slurs are often used to show how the depicted society thinks; “clankers,” “skin jobs,” “pecks,” “mudbloods,” “prawns,” etc. are all marginalized in the worlds they occupy, with the terms themselves giving a clue as to where the cracks are in the societies they are showing.

“That’s impossible, even for a computer!”

“You don't do ‘Star Wars’ in Dobly.”

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We have slurs for subgroups within fandoms it's a natural tribal thing.