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WTF? NC Offers to Replace 10,000 License Plates
beadfulthings writes "In light of recent discussions about the Internet habits of the older generation, it's comforting to know that in North Carolina, up to 10,000 license plates containing the potentially offensive 3-letter WTF combination will be replaced by the Motor Vehicles division at no cost — if the owner of the vehicle finds the plates offensive. As reported on Winston-Salem's television station WXII, the MVD was alerted to the problem by an irate 60-year-old technology teacher who'd been clued in by her grandchildren. The article includes a helpful slide show of twenty Internet acronyms every parent should know. The article doesn't include any information on how you could actually apply for a WTF license plate."
This reminds me of a case we had here in California a few years ago.
An older couple had their initials, RAP JAP, on their plate, and were cited by a Japanese police officer who felt that it was racist because it really meant "RAP(e) JAP", in reference to rapes
of Chinese women by Japanese soldiers, and claimed that it meant that the Japanese should be raped back in retaliation.
This is just another byproduct of the "Group Hug" mentality espoused by "feel-good" hippies and daydreaming liberal nutjobs. These clowns feel that everything that is offensive, harmful, "racist" ("racist" in quotes due to the fact that everything that negatively impacts or affects someone who isn't white is automatically branded as "racist", even though there are technically only three races), dangerous, insulting, mean, or in any way negative.
They claim to be more "open-minded", accepting, intelligent, and benevolent than people they brand as "racist, close-minded conservatives", yet they don't realize that by removing any of the negative aspects mentioned above, they are in fact practicing the very things they claim to be working against.
Free speech is a double-edged sword. If you don't want to risk getting cut, go buy a spoon instead.
Tolerance tolerates intolerance.
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
Get used to it. There's likely to be a Democrat sweep this year.... and that means at the very least a two year reign of pettiness, demagogy, corruption, and unbridled stupidity throughout the country, followed by a decline in everything we take for granted. The nutty party has become dominant over the stupid party, and the asshole voters who put them in power will deserve what they get, just like the generations of slopeheads who have made NC a one party state since the civil war.