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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"In English they call themselves the Vietnamese, but everyone in my neighborhood calls them ****s. It's both."

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I dont understand what you are saying here are you calling me racist again?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't think I called you racist to start with, but my point was that just because something is called by X name in one context by one group of people and Y in another context by another group does not mean both names are equally valid. When it comes to political entities, typically the belief is that the group itself decides on its own name (like Kiev officially becoming Kyiv in English, to take a recent example). The CPC says that its name is the CPC. Western journos who want their readership to hate the Party call it the CCP. These are not equally valid bases for what to call something.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

I did not know that was the case. So I see your point.

I will from now on use CPC.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You're arguing that it's okay to call a group a term used almost exclusively by their political enemies who want them completely destroyed, I think it's pretty obvious that you're a racist.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Ok. I wasnt argue to use it. I was just going off of what wikipedia said. Lol

I can change the term. Cpc it is