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Sorry I don't get this at all.
But using your Can-Canada analogy, that seriously sounds exactly like a Jap-Japan argument. I just don't understand how Nip is more like Can than Jap is.
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Words alone are not offensive, but rather it's how they are used. If there was a history of people using "Can" in a disparaging way, then we would be outraged if a politician from another country called us that. But there isn't a history of Can being a racial slur; the same cannot be said for the word "Jap".
It's a racist term, pure and simple, and it's absolutely boggling that some of you are trying to dismiss it as something harmless.