Nip is an ethnic slurs against people of Japanese people and origin.[
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History
The earliest recorded occurrence of the slur was in the issue of Time magazine published on 5 January 1942, in which "three Nip pilots" were mentioned.[ The word was most frequently used among American, British and Australian servicemen to refer to Japanese military personnel.][ This phrase was later re-used for Hirohito's visit to the UK in 1971 by the satirical magazine Private Eye.]
As part of American wartime propaganda, caricatures and slurs (including Nip) against the Japanese diffused into entertainment,[ such as exemplified by the Warner Bros. cartoon Bugs Bunny Nips the Nips (1944).]
In a manner to evoke further anti-Japanese agitation, a Seattle Star editorial titled "It's Time to do Some Thinking On Nips' Return" from December 14, 1944, discussed the citizenship rights of Japanese-Americans and framed their return to American society as a problem.
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