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 itâs not my logic. Those were quotes. Thatâs 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.
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 ĂŚrlig means honest in english. 
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That is the phonetic alphabet.
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.
You all must be really bored 
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I just follow some of the conversational themes naturally. Not a problem for me.
The only thing I consequentely keep away from is religion, ethnicity and politics in the big terms.
Its a hell of a freakin weather around here now. What the hell dudes.
If you read what I posted about the term, you either didnât understand it, or youâre just gaslighting.
Thatâs your right, but that doesnât 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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Thatâs 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. Itâs extremely offensive. Maybe this will help.
Shall I also complain if you call me Jabs instead of Jabbath ?
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Not exactly. What you said was inaccurate and misleading. It implied that we couldnât use the term Charlie because it was derogatory toward the Viet Cong. But, that isnât the case, at all. Itâs simply a word in the military alphabet code. It wasnât derogatory.
You realise you are the only person bothered by thisânobody is backing you up or outraged because it simply isnât what you are trying to make it out to be.
To sit here and say that Brit or Scot or any of the other abbreviated nationality canât carry racial or derogatory connotations is downright ignorant.
They are people who donât like people from different countries and will couple a derogatory word with the abbreviation; that doesnât make it a racial slur; it makes the person racist or prejudiced.
This outrage you have is ignorant; youâre trying to be PC; you are not Japanese, but will tell me Itâs my right not to want to be called a Brit as it is an accepted non-racial word, says who? Not all Brits like to be associated or sit under that word for many reasons, but I said that to see your response about it.
Oh dear
You all have way too much time 
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