04-07-2019, 08:35 AM | #11 |
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Yeah, I was trying to come up with an equivalent and something like JUNGL FVR on a Land Rover might be it, but even that doesn’t get at the accent issue.
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04-07-2019, 08:40 AM | #12 |
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To me, if it just had an L instead of an R, I could see it being OK (barely). The R is what takes it over the line -- just since the accent issue is what makes it clear that its being racist...
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What if the owner is of Asian descent?
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I think that the gov't should steer clear of controlling what people can or can't say. If this is such a big problem, maybe the best option would be to eliminate vanity plates, and instead everyone just gets a random set of alphanumerics.
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If it were on a yellow 5-series, would you still find it offensive? "Euro Fever?" "Euro 5er?" I do find it a little bit amusing that the only people I've ever known to use the pejorative "yellow fever" were people of Asian descent. |
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As far as license plates and governments, there's a fairly rich seam of First Amendment law on all of that. As with a lot of First Amendment law, the cases are sort of all over the map. I tend to agree that the easiest/best thing to do is just get rid of vanity plates, because 99 percent of them are dumb, even if they aren't dumb and racist. To replace the revenue lost, you should pay able to pay extra for a) a European sized plate, or b) no front plate. |
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Yeah that's over the line. Especially when plates like "ATHEIST" get rejected by multiple states. Admittedly, I don't think that particular one happened in CA.
Agree, get rid of em. Stupid anyway. I'd pay for a simple white-on-black old school Delaware style plate. NJ still defaults to caucasian skin color plates with mismatched bad fonts. Though you can elect to enhance them with heinous 1996 Microsoft Clip Art-esque graphics for special causes. So annoying.
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a guy that several of us know used to have the plate "FKRZFST" (or similar) on his Z06. I recall that he got a notification in the mail telling him his plate was being revoked... after having the plate on the car for some time. and the car mostly lived on a trailer
To be clear, I totally get how someone could find "YERO FVR" to be offensive. |
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