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Old 04-06-2019, 10:17 AM   #1
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How does this plate get approved?

Amazingly, there doesn't seem to be a way to report inappropriate license plates online in CA.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1995-bmw-850csi-7/

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Old 04-06-2019, 10:31 AM   #2
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Amazingly, there doesn't seem to be a way to report inappropriate license plates online in CA.

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1995-bmw-850csi-7/
Euro Fever for a European car?

Yellow Fever for a yellow car?

Double entendre for a yellow european car?

What outrage am I missing?
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Old 04-06-2019, 11:54 AM   #3
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What outrage am I missing?
Yellow is derogatory slang for Asian/Chinese. Native Chinese speakers also have a hard time pronouncing the English "L", which often comes out as a soft "R".

I am surprised that got through on a CA plate… Looks like a letter has to be sent (really surprising there isn't at least an email address). This seems to be a violation of one of the CA rules -- personalized plates cannot have a "negative connotation to a specific group" per this Sacramento Bee article (which also has the address to send a complaint to…):

https://www.sacbee.com/site-services...151671922.html
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I still don't get it... Somebody help me out so I can be offended too
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And yellow fever, specifically, is a fairly derogatory and dehumanizing term for an Asian fetish.

A license plate reference to yellow fever by itself would maybe just be gross and in poor taste, but with the Mickey Rooney-in-Breakfast-at-Tiffany’s accent (that ZBB explained) it’s just flat out racist. Like, by a lot.
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I thought the first E was an f. Now I see where youre coming from
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On something other than a European yellow car, I can buy it. On a yellow European car, that's an outrage looking for a reason. A cigar is just a cigar, sometimes. Especially when it's old white dudes living on the other side of the country from where the car is getting outraged. But, whatever.
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I’m confused about what it being on a European car has to do with anything.

I’m also confused about why I shouldn’t call out racist bullshit. But whatever.
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I don't get the outrage.
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I don't get the outrage.
Replace the first 4 letters with a similar derivative of the N-word. Would you be outraged then?

This is just as bad, and is racist term derogatory to Asians. I may send a letter to the CA DMV also.
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