Congressman uses racial slur on TV, blames it on imaginary "guy at the end of the bar"

Rep. Peter King used the term "Jap" on MSNBC, claiming it was "satire."



Former House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) is refusing to apologize for using an anti-Asian racial slur during a recent cable news appearance, defending his remarks as "satire."

Rep. Peter King defends using Japanese slur in describing his anti-Trump views

In an appearance on MSNBC's Morning Joe on Friday, King used the term "Japs" while criticizing presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump's "uninformed" views on foreign policy, likening the candidate to a hypothetical "guy at the end of the bar."

King highlighted his opposition to Trump's proposal to pull U.S. troops out of Japan and South Korea and instead equip them with nuclear weapons as a deterrent against China and North Korea.

"There's real issues with him, real problems with his views," King said of Trump. "I don't know if he's thought them through, or if it's like the guy at the end of the bar that says, 'Oh screw them, bomb them, kill them, pull out, bring them home. You know, why pay for the Japs, why pay for the Koreans."

Ted Nugent uses slur "Japs" at Tea Party rally

And absolutely nobody is surprised.



This is not at all surprising, but still completely unacceptable. During a recent appearance at a Tea Party event in Wyoming, musician, NRA spokesman and general outspoken asshole Ted Nugent used the derogatory term "Japs" while talking about how America has changed since World War II.

NRA's Ted Nugent Uses Racial Slur For Japanese While Speaking In Front Of Tea Party Crowd

At a rally hosted by the Big Horn Basin Tea Party, Nugent expressed his belief that the government had "turned on us," and referred to a supposedly better time in our nation's history, when "the universally celebrated good of America crushed the universally understood evil of Japs and Nazis."

Media Matters has the video:

So you didn't know (or care) that "Jap" is a racial slur. Okay. But you continued to be an ass about it.

For those who think that "Jap" is nothing more than a simple abbreviation for "Japanese," you are wrong. But your ignorance is excusable. Your stubborn attempts to deny and deflect are not.

So... who's getting into trouble over racial slurs today? If you follow the latest news out of the Food Network, you know that TV personality Paula Deen is the middle of a professional meltdown over admitted racist actions in her past, including the use of racial slurs. The Food Network has chosen not to renew Deen's contract.

One of the many voices who chimed in to throw in a dig at Deen was renowed Las Vegas restaurant reviewer John Curtas, who tweeted, "[Paula Deen] thinks colored people are swell."

Gann Matsuda of the Manzanar Committee found Curtas' comments noteworthy and perhaps just a little hypocritical, considering that Curtas has also publicly used a racial slur -- though in nowhere near the same context -- in a past tweet: "The best Jap-German collaboration since 1941...."