Fireworks were partially CG’d?
The adorable Lin Miao-Ke lip-sync’d to Yang Pei-Yi’s beautiful voice?
So… did you enjoy the awesome opening ceremony of Beijing Olympics?
Uh-huh.
So what’s there to bitch about?
It was a visual art performance. It was a show.
And it kicked every other previous Olympic Opening Ceremonies’ asses!
Get over it.

And thank you, John Stewart, for pointing out the obvious oversight of the double standards Americans hold against China.

http://www.tamparacing.com/forums/general-car-chat/504615-attn-joe-dono-aka-scp_celica-scammer.html

A really big thing going on around the world of car enthusiasts message boards these past couple of days is the report of some Joe Dono kid made an attempt to scam an auto shop outta $16,000 worth of work, and his additional feeble attempt to get the law on his side upon the unsuccessful scam. Words spread fast on the Internet. This sorry excuse of the human kind is getting pwned left and right by every online community that has read or heard about the story. Google his name and you’ll see what I mean.

What caught my attention on the Tampa Racing forums specifically, however, was the what-has-now-been-deleted posts and debates over the political correctness of the being-scammed-autoshop’s name.

J.A.P. Works, which most of local residents refer to it as “Jap”works, brought up a short but heated discussion with its offensive sounding name. Few forum members, whom are aware of the type sentiment the J word may stir up, questioned the naming of an autoshop that specializes in Japanese import automobiles with such sensative wording, believing that it is inappropriate. The owners of the shop in question stated that the acronym was made up of the owner’s initials, which coincidentally spelled out “Jap”, and claimed that they are unaware the term was offensive to Japanese Americans. Other Tampa residents quickly took side of the autoshop and ganged up on the ones who thought the naming is insensative, their excuses ranging from “the owners was unaware” to “why so sensative?”

Maybe it’s the fact that I lived in Los Angeles for most of my life, and have taken Southern California’s racial diversity for granted. But the words of these postings of fellow car enthusiasts from Tampa defending the use of the J word showed me nothing but ignorance and lack of education. Claiming that it is okay to use racist terms base on “not knowing” is just not a convincing argument. Brushing a racial sensative word off as an acronym further lacks intellectual judgement. Those Tampa residents that argued for that looked nothing more than a bunch of tool bags for being such ignorant rednecks. You simply do not create an offensive word that targeted at a specific race, and tell them to get over it because it never means anything to your protected and spoiled white asses. And saying the word is just an acronym doesn’t cut it. What if tomorrow I decided to gather up Nathan, Ian, Gary, Gina and Alex and use their initials to start an energy company called N.I.G.G.A Services? Does that make the mentioning of a racial, condescending word completely exempt from hurting people.

No. It does not.

And these Tampa people who think it is okay are tool bags, and should be ashamed of themselves.