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This ^^Please understand that this is an explanation and not a defense of the words being "wrong" so don't bother arguing with me about it
They are considered "wrong" because of the way they were used, as a form of demeaning and dehumanizing a group of people based only on a common trait, in this case a country of origin and in that way they are in fact both like the "N" word
That's it. It isn't a really complex concept and the truth is things can be 'historical' and offensive at the same time
Of partial note, those terms are not considered offensive in the UK, so yes, Yank, Jap, Brit etc. This is predominantly because they were not used in a discriminatory way.