Arkansas Yanks ("Racist") NGR License Plates

[ecstatic]

ARKANSAS -- A series of hundreds of Arkansas-issued license plates are being pulled out of circulation over letter combinations that some claim are racist.

"I couldn't imagine putting this on my car," motorist Alice Kunce said as she held up her "018-NGR" license plate.

Kunce said she found the letter combination offensive.

"She looked at it and said, 'Why not,'" Kunce said. "I said, 'Look at it, what does it say?' and she looked at it and said, 'Oh.'"

The state decided to pull the entire series of plates after being made aware of the letter combination.

"Some folks might think it OK, others find it offensive," Roger Duren of the Office of Motor Vehicles said. "So, if anyone does, anything offensive we try not to issue."

http://www.local6.com/spotlight/16975339/detail.html

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PPbiVqZyGKk

[TroglodyteScholar]

1. Nagger?

[varkam]

13. Rofl!

South Park in one of its finer moments.

[ecstatic]

20. My parents became South Park fans over that episode nt

[fl410]

2. Random letter assignment yields marvelous opportunity for major whining.

How special.

[spanone]

12. how sensitive

[fl410]

14. I just keep forgetting how we Americans have an inalienable right to never be offended

in any way, shape or form.

People really ought to get a fucking grip.
:grr:

[nomorenomore08]

3. It may be an overreaction, but that letter combination just doesn't look right to me.

Although I'm sure there was no racist intent behind it, I certainly wouldn't want that on the back of my car. People might get the wrong idea.

[Taverner]

4. With as many combinations you can make, this one could be avoided

[fl410]

18. There are 17,576 possible 3-letter combinations in the standard English alphabet.

Probably half of them look offensive to some thin-skinned idiot somewhere. :eyes:

[Taverner]

30. But when they make swear words, they take them out of comission

So if its that close to a word that has the potential of seriously offending someone, wouldn't it be a smart choice to axe those too?

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

5. Just Goes To Show That Some People Will Just Seek Out New Ways To Be Offended.

This is one of the most ridiculous ones I've seen yet. Holy cow.

[ecstatic]

6. Possibly... but if the plate was used in conjunction with a Confederate flag sticker or

something... then I would definitely assume the person was a racist. Would it bother me or ruin my day? No. But they better not try to get over...

[fl410]

10. Well it isn't like there is more than one of them...

unless the DMV thought it was a good idea to issue the same license plate number to... a few hundred?... drivers or cars.
:eyes:

[dsc]

28. there would be 1000 of them

000 to 999 for every letter combo used.

[1]

16. omg! hc%d ne1 not b offended!

since no one uses actual words anymore, its even more in the mind of the beholder.

to be safe, they should probably just ban any plate with the letters "n", "c", "f"...

[fl410]

17. What scares me is that I actually was able to read your subject line.

And I'm an old phart who wouldn't know how to do a text message if pigs were eating my nephew.
:eyes:

[1]

25. i know, bud...

in this case, offense is offense.

whatever and *shakes head* *decidedly down...*

[DainBramaged]

22. What about 'N. W. A.'

:rofl: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N.W.A subsequently banned from many mainstream U.S. radio stations and even at times prevented from touring


I wonder if the people who are offended by license plates are offended by the deaths of our children in Iraq?

[Arkansas Granny]

27. Around here NWA would be interpreted as NorthWest Arkansas and most

people would not be offended at all. I guess, like beauty, it's in the eye of the beholder.

[wuushew]

7. I myself don't consider letter groupings lacking vowels to be words.

Is our children learning? :shrug:

[bitchkitty]

8. How incredibly stupid. n/t

[jus_the_facts]

9. They interviewed two black men and they didn't have a problem with it...

....I think the ONE white woman in the interview was probably afraid her car would be vandalized because SHE has a problem. :eyes: This was on our local news last week.

[fl410]

19. Well you are obviously a racist...implying that those 2 guys can't spell.

:eyes:

[jus_the_facts]

21. You're obviously an idiot.....to assume that I'm a racist...I didn't imply anything...

...about their spelling skills. :wtf:

[AnnieBW]

11. There was also a problem with WTF

Although, frankly, NGR is a little more obvious to the average non-Netizen.

[fl410]

15. Well, that's pretty obviously since it means White Trash Fuckers

:eyes:

[DainBramaged]

23. My my

:yoiks:

[AnnieBW]

31. Actually, it's "What The Frak"

Or "What the Frell" if you prefer Farscapese.

[Jack_DeLeon]

24. This is pretty stupid...

[jmowreader]

26. There are other offensive combinations

Did they pull "HBE" (anti-Jewish slur), "GUK" (anti-Asian slur) and "HUN" (anti-German slur), and will they pull "SPC" (anti-Hispanic slur) or "WOP" (anti-Italian slur)?

[XemaSab]

29. You forgot

JAP, FRG, PDY, BNR, PLK, GYP, DGO, JRY, NIP, MCK, PKI, and the ever-popular PWT. :P

[AnnieBW]

32. Not to mention

PNS, VAJ, FUK, SHT, MFR, CNT, DCK, ASS, etc.

[XemaSab]

33. And

TWT, DCK, CCK, CLT, VJJ, NUT, BNR, BBY, PSY...

Why did they even think license plates were a good idea to begin with? :shrug: