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How is it a slur, you mean?
"Used by soldiers during the Korean and Vietnam Wars; multiple hypotheses exist as to the specific origin. One is that if an East Asian person were shot in the middle of the forehead with a machine gun, the head would split as if being unzipped; another, that the appearance of tire tracks on a body having been run over by a military Jeep or that of tank tracks resembled a zipper."
https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/zipperhead
Jesus fucking Christ, I assumed it was a "hurr durr narrow eyes" racist thing, what you've said/linked is way worse