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Originally Posted by microbet
5ive,
I swear I posted this already, but....
I was just skimming what happened after the flare up and it may well have been someone else focusing on the particular word.
Ok, it was totally my bad that I made two big assumptions, making asses out of you and me and everybody else.
I didn't spell out from the jump that IMO the insult of, to quote myself from earlier, "saying the person is of such sufficiently low character that they would brutalize their own people in order to kowtow and curry favor with their authoritarian overlords," is way more of an extreme charge than any gobbledygook racist epithets. I assumed this angle was obvious but Yuv et al said I was, "only saying kapo is..." And I'm like, there's no "only" here, that's the big deal thing.
Like, "A kapo by any other name would still smell as foul."
I've lost track of the number of times I've referred to wil with his fascist bootlicking as, "vying for Honorary Aryan status," and rightfully nobody interprets that as slanderous against Japanese or Korean people. And yes, it's a barb specifically related to him being Korean.
The other assumption is that I thought Yuv for the most part agreed but wanted to make Fly wriggle on the hook. I wasn't trolling when I said I suspected Yuv might be trolling.
But if people want to decree "kapo" has N-word status, that's fine. When in Rome.