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Originally Posted by Hack&Lube
It's always been my understanding (perhaps since I'm asian) that calling a Vietnamese g**k a is the same as calling a Chinese a Chink. I'm pretty sure that no asian cultures associate this word only with combantants (whereas the word Jap is in the same catagory but definetely carries WWII connotations). It is a racial and derogatory slur, even other asians use it against others in a bad manner. If you call an asian person that to his face, he will take it as a directly racial and not 'historical' slur referring to a combatant force.
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That's my take on it too. I had no idea it had anything to do with war at all, and always thought of it as a derogatory term towards an entire race (racist).
McCain may not mean it in that way, but none the less, he should know better when throwing around terms like that in his position.