Hundreds Of License Plates Pulled Over OFFENSIVE RACIAL SLUR

You know that feeling when a random 3-letter combination gets you all worked up over RACISM?!

Yeah. I don’t either, but apparently, Kansas is recalling HUNDREDS of license plates with the random letter combination “JAP.”

According to Fox News:

The issue arose in October 2017 when Keith Kawamoto, 70, saw a Kansas license plate near his Los Angeles home and took a photo of it. Kawamoto then wrote several letters to Kansas officials, including Gov. Jeff Colyer.

“I let them know it is considered a very derogatory racial slur and I don’t think it should be allowed anywhere,” Kawamoto said.

OF COURSE, the guy who complained wasn’t from Kansas. He was from California… and was AWFULLY OFFENDED by the Kansas plate.

Kansas’ motor vehicles division apologized, but Kawamoto wanted Kansas to get all plates containing the three-letter combination recalled.

Yeeeeah.

Because the random letter combo in Kansas was just RUINING HIS LIFE.

Rachel Whitten, a spokeswoman for the Kansas Department of Revenue, said the issue came before the department’s review board, which made the decision last month to pull any current license plates with the lettering and prevent its use in future plates.

The Kansas Department of Revenue said there are 731 active registrations containing that random letter combination on standard license plates. Vehicle owners were sent a letter dated Tuesday asking them to return the plate to their county vehicle office within 30 days for replacement at no cost.

“At no cost.”  Other than the fact that you’re now required to take off your plate, go TURN IT IN, and put on a new plate because some dude in California was offended.

I understand that in certain contexts, that word may be used offensively. In THIS case, it’s literally just a 3-letter combo on a license plate that someone DECIDED they WANTED to get offended over.