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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.
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04-06-2019, 10:31 AM | #2 | |
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Yellow Fever for a yellow car? Double entendre for a yellow european car? What outrage am I missing?
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04-06-2019, 11:54 AM | #3 |
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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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04-06-2019, 02:05 PM | #5 |
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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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04-06-2019, 06:54 PM | #8 |
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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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