I don’t see anyone accusing m4dm4x as racist here. I think you overreacted. It is offensive to Chineses to be called chin or cina, but i think it’s over reacted for this case too.
I don’t intend to start any arguments or debate here, just to explain so that people understand. The reason is related to WW2 and Japanese when Chinese were called cina or sound like that.
But i think it was simply a short form by M4DM4X. Definitely overreacted if anyone find it offensive. Unless M4DM4X is Japanese. :sunglasses:
IMHO, I don’t think Joey over-reacted. Joey was merely pointing out that there are members here that are over-reacting from innocent typo. I saw the post directed at m4dm4x suggesting that he shouldn’t use such word. I was the first one to jump to his defense as it was clearly a typo on Martin’s part. From memory, instead of typing out the whole word “Chinese New Year”, he typed it as “Chin. New Year”. The Chin. that was used in that context was clearly an abbreviation, and had no malice in it whatsoever.
Joey is right to say that we are all here for this hobby, and people ought not to suggest anyone is being racist from simple typo, and I will add that it should be irrespective of their race.
Since we are sidetracking a bit, and talking about abbreviations, it is easiest to use the acronym CNY to refer to Chinese New Year. I use it myself all the time
That would make my life so much easier these last few weeks, sadly I was afraid I would just get questions of what CYN was and then spend more time explaining it lol.