Just because you admit you are jerk, doesn't give you the right to be a jerk.
True. Everyone has the right to be a jerk, whether they admit they are a jerk or not.
Definition from Merriam-Webster: prej·u·dice (1): preconceived judgment or opinion (2): an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge...
I don't know......that pretty much sums it up.
Yes, it does, with the keys to that definition being "without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge." Yet I and my others have seen foreigners, who are unfamiliar, ignorant, or even disrespectful of local customs and do things that were illustrated in the postings. It is a statement made with just grounds and sufficient knowledge. There is a difference between mentioning someone of another race or ethnicity, whether it be in humor or in anger, and being racist. Simply because someone else is of another race does not mean you cannot talk about them, or their habits and customs.
Educate yourselves and try not to fall into the masses, have an original thought and do your thinking for yourselves.
It's ironic that political correctness, by its very nature, its very design, sucks people into the masses, squashes original thought, and discourages thinking for yourself.
To me I find it appauling that a "Mod" would read those comments (that had nothing to do with the thead) and not delete them but instead add to the unintelligent comments already made.
Well, actually, if you followed the thread, the comments did, in fact, directly address the content of the original poster's comments, as he commented several times about the how much time was taken on "what should have been a quick fuel stop". The thread followed a natural progression after that.
The comments in question may or may not be uncalled for, but they certainly weren't even close enough to being racist for anyone to get all bent out of shape over. If you don't pretend that differences exist between races and cultures, then you're a racist? Is that what it's become now? Just like if you don't wholeheartedly embrace and endorse homosexuality, you're a homophobe? Wow.