Racial slur terms are numerous and prominent among all the Peoples of the world, and most if not all of them are “organic”—arising in colloquial fashion as slang among the Peoples themselves to refer to one other type of People different from themselves.
Nips and Japs, porch monkeys and shines, paleface and ghostface, Hebes and Yids. When I lived in Hoboken, we had an influx from the Balkans. Locals started calling them "Yugos". Then from childhood there was "limeys" for the Brits. My Wham parody was "Wake me up before you go-go, I'm a wanker and a limey homo."
I remember being on a tourist bus ride in England where my fellow local passenger complimented
Americans on "wetback." He thought it was hilarious. But that was late 80s. Too bad they don't have a similar defensive term for illegal immigrants, now that they need one.
I included Japs, but not these others. Hebes and Yids should have been obvious. I thought of Limey, but it didn't seem derogatory. Maybe it is though. I could not think of any slur for "American Indians," "Native Americans," or "First Nations Peoples" (none of which are accurate in either sense) except Reds, which actually refers to Commies, which is not a racial term. Nether is Nazi technically, but I included it anyway, since a racial meaning has been imposed.
From what I understand, younger folks are now referring to Wetbacks as Beaners.
I think once the wetbacks settle in, they become beaners.
Krauts was the negative ethnic appellation for Germans.
Limey was a word my dad used coming out of WW2 slang, as in, those limeys couldn't keep up (militarily). Yanks was used in a similar sense by my Brit uncle, as in, the Yanks have got some nerve (w/ our women).
But you could also use these terms w/o the derogatory intent. And isn't that true of a lot of of these epithets? There can be a layer of relativity or neutrality implicit. Even the major insults can be softened by usage. "That yid really knew his stuff." "Damn, that nigger could hit."
When you let the righteous third party (E Michael Jones) or the Masters of Discourse (Israel Shamir) decide who's allowed to use certain words and who isn't, free speech takes a mortal blow.
Nips and Japs, porch monkeys and shines, paleface and ghostface, Hebes and Yids. When I lived in Hoboken, we had an influx from the Balkans. Locals started calling them "Yugos". Then from childhood there was "limeys" for the Brits. My Wham parody was "Wake me up before you go-go, I'm a wanker and a limey homo."
I remember being on a tourist bus ride in England where my fellow local passenger complimented
Americans on "wetback." He thought it was hilarious. But that was late 80s. Too bad they don't have a similar defensive term for illegal immigrants, now that they need one.
I included Japs, but not these others. Hebes and Yids should have been obvious. I thought of Limey, but it didn't seem derogatory. Maybe it is though. I could not think of any slur for "American Indians," "Native Americans," or "First Nations Peoples" (none of which are accurate in either sense) except Reds, which actually refers to Commies, which is not a racial term. Nether is Nazi technically, but I included it anyway, since a racial meaning has been imposed.
From what I understand, younger folks are now referring to Wetbacks as Beaners.
I think once the wetbacks settle in, they become beaners.
Krauts was the negative ethnic appellation for Germans.
Limey was a word my dad used coming out of WW2 slang, as in, those limeys couldn't keep up (militarily). Yanks was used in a similar sense by my Brit uncle, as in, the Yanks have got some nerve (w/ our women).
But you could also use these terms w/o the derogatory intent. And isn't that true of a lot of of these epithets? There can be a layer of relativity or neutrality implicit. Even the major insults can be softened by usage. "That yid really knew his stuff." "Damn, that nigger could hit."
When you let the righteous third party (E Michael Jones) or the Masters of Discourse (Israel Shamir) decide who's allowed to use certain words and who isn't, free speech takes a mortal blow.