As someone who got in fistfights in the 60’s after being called a “dirty Jap” by both black and white kids, it’s time to retire the term....
Think what one of those is gonna bring on eBay...
When Barbara Johnson, a 67-year-old Japanese-American Kansas resident, saw a license plate in her state with “JAP” on it, she told the Associated Press she still vividly recalls “being called ‘Jap’—and how it made [her] feel so small and hurt”
What an A-hole.
If some “Jewish American Princess” wants to put JAP on her license plate it shouldn’t matter to you....
ignoramus...
So there goes my FAG license plate...
For the record, I would pay extra to put these on my wife’s car.
Also, why is “Jap” racist?
“Brit” isn’t racist. Nor “Aussie”. Or even “Yank”.
It’s just an abbreviation.
My brother had one.... NOFAT1S
Kansas needs to grow up and stop the whining.
I wonder how many 3 letter combinations can be found to be offensive.
How: Hispanic Offensive Woman
can: Canadian
I hearby recall that sentence.
How many 3-letter combinations are they supposed to eliminate from their random license plate assignments?
And JAP is not a derogatory term for Japanese, it is a derogatory term for Jewish American Princess.
But whatever. I’m sure the 3 letters on my license plate offend somebody somewhere, maybe in the future all license plates will just be 6 asteriks.
What about JAP motorcycles? (built by JA Prestwich Industries)
Or how about Jewish American Princesses? Could be it’s anti-Semitic, too?
Then there’s ...
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There’s a long list of people to get insulted before you get down to the ones who bombed Pearl Harbor, promoted rape and cannibalism and murdered more than 10 million civilians just because they could.
Good thing it wasn’t FAG.
All hell would have broke loose.