VHTV and the Chamber of Chatters

Not exactly accurate.

During the Vietnam war, “the communist movement and united front organization in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia,” were collectively often called the Viet Cong.

“It was commonly shortened to VC, which in military alphabet code was spoken as Victor Charlie. It was further shortened to just Charlie.”

While Victor Charlie was shortened to Charlie, instead of having to say Victor Charlie, (since they couldn’t just say VC over the airwaves) to refer to the Viet Cong, Charlie is just a word in the military alphabet code, not a derogatory slur, like Jap is.

The military alphabet code, also known as the standard NATO phonetic alphabet.

"Alfa, Bravo, Charlie, Delta, Echo, Foxtrot, Golf, Hotel, India, Juliett, Kilo, Lima, Mike, November, Oscar, Papa, Quebec, Romeo, Sierra, Tango, Uniform, Victor, Whiskey, X-ray, Yankee, Zulu.

Numbers are pronounced as normal, except often 9 is pronounced “Niner” so it doesn’t get confused with 5."

“It is called the “NATO” alphabet because it was standardised by the NATO member countries back in the 1950s to allow accurate exchange of radio messages between air, naval and army f___es of all the NATO member nations.”

and Ærlig, Østen, Åse :wink:

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Huh?


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Funny how when International football or rugby matches are being played they use the first three letters of a countries name on the score board so by your logic every major tv station world wide is using racial slurs what a load of nonsense

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Well, first it’s not my logic. Those were quotes. That’s why I put them in quotes.

Second, we were only talking about the term Jap. The same with what I quoted. So, Brit is still an abbreviation for Britain, etc.

:rofl:


They are Norwegian letters

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Oh, so Jap is derogatory, but Brit is an abbreviation? Fack outta hey.

I take deep offence to being called a Brit; how bout that?

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If it helps you, at least ærlig means honest in english. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :heart_eyes:

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That is the phonetic alphabet. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :heart_eyes:

Basically what I meant to say, but shorter.

What about a SCOT for Scottish?

I have heard exactly that short expression many many times. For scottish. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

You all must be really bored :joy::joy::joy:

Questioning Wondering GIF by South Park

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I just follow some of the conversational themes naturally. Not a problem for me. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :heart_eyes: :joy:

The only thing I consequentely keep away from is religion, ethnicity and politics in the big terms. :joy: :heart_eyes: :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

Its a hell of a freakin weather around here now. What the hell dudes. :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: :heart_eyes:

If you read what I posted about the term, you either didn’t understand it, or you’re just gaslighting.

That’s your right, but that doesn’t change the fact that Brit is an accepted and non-racial, non-derogatory abbreviation for Britain or British. Just like people in Texas are called Texans, or Scottish people are called Scots.

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That’s true. I never said otherwise. I said after Japan declared war, the term Jap became a racial slur, and it remains so to this day.

It would be the same as calling a German, a Nazi today. It’s extremely offensive. Maybe this will help.

Derogatory Racial Term Denounced

Shall I also complain if you call me Jabs instead of Jabbath ? :joy::joy::joy:

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Not exactly. What you said was inaccurate and misleading. It implied that we couldn’t use the term Charlie because it was derogatory toward the Viet Cong. But, that isn’t the case, at all. It’s simply a word in the military alphabet code. It wasn’t derogatory.