Comments on: WTF! The Letters NGR Are Now Racist http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/07/29/wtf-the-letters-ngr-are-now-racist/ Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:12:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 By: El Borak http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/07/29/wtf-the-letters-ngr-are-now-racist/#comment-85258 El Borak Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:07:38 +0000 http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/07/29/wtf-the-letters-ngr-are-now-racist/#comment-85258 We actually had the same complaint just to your east about a dozen years ago. When I lived in JoCo, there was a brief ruckus when the letters HOE started being issued on license plates. Based on the urbanesque homophone, such plates were judged to be too offensive to display publicly. So the DMV shipped them to western Kansas where a hoe is simply a farm implement. We actually had the same complaint just to your east about a dozen years ago. When I lived in JoCo, there was a brief ruckus when the letters HOE started being issued on license plates. Based on the urbanesque homophone, such plates were judged to be too offensive to display publicly.

So the DMV shipped them to western Kansas where a hoe is simply a farm implement.

]]> By: Mrs. Snoop http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/07/29/wtf-the-letters-ngr-are-now-racist/#comment-85273 Mrs. Snoop Tue, 29 Jul 2008 17:21:28 +0000 http://politicalpartypoop.com/2008/07/29/wtf-the-letters-ngr-are-now-racist/#comment-85273 I went thru a situation about 15 years ago where an opinion had to be re-written to omit the word "niggardly." It was used, of course, to denote someone being stingey with something. But the one person in the office who had appointed herself the gatekeeper for all potentially racists conduct spotted it and raised holy heck with the powers that be. The person who had written the opinion fought back, but ultimately lost. I haven't seen anyone use that word anywhere since. I went thru a situation about 15 years ago where an opinion had to be re-written to omit the word “niggardly.” It was used, of course, to denote someone being stingey with something. But the one person in the office who had appointed herself the gatekeeper for all potentially racists conduct spotted it and raised holy heck with the powers that be. The person who had written the opinion fought back, but ultimately lost. I haven’t seen anyone use that word anywhere since.

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