Really Like... Seriously

[camaroitalia]

How is oriental offensive??
And i woulda loved to wave a bunch of money!! lol

[midnighter]

Originally Posted by rally yellow ss rs

On the road is one thing, but following you to your house is another. They now know where you live, your size/build, and now can drive by anytime to case it out. Camaros are not easy to steal with onstar and all, and car thieves know this. However a set of our 20" wheels and tires can be sold really quick for 1k. I had a friend come out from Wal-Mart to find people hacking off his exhaust cat back. Some cats go for like $600+ let alone the mufflers and exhaust. He stomped on the guys head. It happens.

It's true. I also heard of thieves stealing catalitic converters off of new cars and selling them cheap. Then there was the copper theft a couple of years ago. WTF?

[MatchbookSS]

Originally Posted by camaroitalia

How is oriental offensive??
And i woulda loved to wave a bunch of money!! lol

It's an antiquated, outdated term that generalizes separate asian ethnicities, as well as describes people as something they're not, as the Orient refers to a specific region in Asia as well as certain things, like vases, rugs...shit like that. And some asian people don't like it.

It's essentially the same thing as calling a black person, "colored", or "Negro". At least to the people who are offended by it.

Or like calling you a Sicilian. If you're not actually Sicilian. Most Italians who aren't Sicilian take offense to being called Sicilian.

Still amazed at the amount of ethnocentricity pervading middle-class America these days.

[camaroitalia]

Originally Posted by MatchbookSS

It's an antiquated, outdated term that generalizes separate asian ethnicities, as well as describes people as something they're not, as the Orient refers to a specific region in Asia as well as certain things, like vases, rugs...shit like that. And some asian people don't like it.

It's essentially the same thing as calling a black person, "colored", or "Negro". At least to the people who are offended by it.

Or like calling you a Sicilian. If you're not actually Sicilian. Most Italians who aren't Sicilian take offense to being called Sicilian.

Still amazed at the amount of ethnocentricity pervading middle-class America these days.

I just dont see why people take offense to something they are lol
but thank you to clearing that up, i never knew it was an actual racist term

[Kycamaross]

And flight attendants don't like being called stewardess. Domestic engineers don't like being called house wives. Servers don't like being called waiters. Little people don't like being called midgets.
I bet people will think I'm crazy if I say I don't like to be called a white man. I prefer Caucasion. I'm on board with stamping out offensive, derogatory remarks, but we have become so over PC, that it's getting riduculous!!

[Berean]

The incident was caught on his neighbors video camera. As usual, what really happened is somewhat different than the story we were told originally.

[Johnnyma45]

Originally Posted by jrhaus76

Well Johnny maybe so but people shouldn't be so thinned skinned. Its an honest slip up using a not so politically correct term. I am sure anything said could offend someone for some reason. People have become so soft.

It's not about being soft, and it's not even about me saying "hey f* off that's offensive." It's about the fact that lots of people don't even know that it's offensive. That's why I'm asking if he even knows that it is, because guess what, it's a generalization and offensive to some.

Originally Posted by Kycamaross

And flight attendants don't like being called stewardess. Domestic engineers don't like being called house wives. Servers don't like being called waiters. Little people don't like being called midgets.
I bet people will think I'm crazy if I say I don't like to be called a white man. I prefer Caucasion. I'm on board with stamping out offensive, derogatory remarks, but we have become so over PC, that it's getting riduculous!!

Yea the difference is, Caucasians are not the minority in this country. Like another commenter said, oriental is an outdated term, and while many people haven't grown up with it being used as a slur, there's some of us old enough to have dealt with it, and we don't appreciate it. Again, just bringing it to the OP's attention that it's offensive to some. Don't mean to thread hijack but the way people are saying "what's the big deal" bugs me.

[Berean]

I prefer to be called occidental.

[khabboub]

thats a little desperate. haha.

[DIGthat2SS]

If i noticed someone was following me i definatly wouldnt go home or any place i attend to regularly.One time this guy in a minivan was behind me FOREVER but it was in a neighbor hood so i thought maybe were both headed in the same direction until li turned into a coldesac street on accident and turned all the way around and he kept going behind me..thats when i was like okay this guy is definatly up to somehting so i booked it out of sight and took like 5 turns to hopefully get rid of a trail.Buuuuuut someone saying they might be jar jackers is 100% possible.I know they use people in nice cars to go scope out other nice cars and since people see other car guys they kind of welcome them to the group so they act as friends and then talk to them as friends not strangers and they get more info on a certain car and go back to other car jackers and inform them of the car,where it stays,the owner,protection of it and all thtat jank.But they could also just a couple of punk kids.

[midnighter]

It's interesting to me how the topic in this thread went from a couple of kids offering to race, to racial, to thieves, to stalkers. I'll be sure to never offer a stranger to race me, that's for sure.....they might think I'm a serial killer. LMAO!

[The IOM Ninja]

Originally Posted by midnighter

It's interesting to me how the topic in this thread went from a couple of kids offering to race, to racial, to thieves, to stalkers. I'll be sure to never offer a stranger to race me, that's for sure.....they might think I'm a serial killer. LMAO!

Case and point!

[philipdistefano]

Originally Posted by barnesql

Hey, at least it shows your car is sweet. Whenever that happens to me, I just give them a quick deep rev that makes them wish they didn't drive ricers. Works every time.

A 370Z is definitely not a ricer.

[tjbusa]

Originally Posted by philipdistefano

A 370Z is definitely not a ricer.

Huh????