Huh, removing the video seemed to do more harm than good.

Political correctness.

In all seriousness, this is the definition of redacting history.

The frame was the context.

I mean, hey, great, if you’re cool with allowing government entities to dictate what you can express based on how others feel, awesome. Nothing ever went wrong with that line of thinking.....

To everyone who made snarky comments about my post, I leave this:

Don’t blame me if you can’t understand plain English. (apologies if the word ‘English’ miscroagresses you)

Hence the SOME. By the way, I’ve never watched Star Trek in my life, and I still understood that reference. Its so massively ingrained in pop culture, you pretty much have to willfully make yourself ignorant of it, because it is going to show up in all sorts of other media you might happen to be consuming.

ah the “how dare you speak out about anything shut up and go away” response. what you should be looking at is the fact that you’ve unconsciously ranked cultures and yet you want to be called the cultured one?

It’s like you have a basic problem communicating. You’re already assuming if someone isn’t 100% on board with this, they want aboriginals to die. That’s not true, that’s you projecting. That’s on you.

Well assumptions are useless

You’d think with problems like that, one wouldnt have time to worry about sci-fi phrases on goddam license plates.

Make me, internet tough guy.

Have been offended in the past, have realized the intention was not to offend me or to have anything to do with me, got over it.

I get the history. But here we have a word, oddly spelled, with a movie plate around it. If you don’t know what it is, you complain. Then the owner points out the intent and the effort to make it obvious, and you go, Oh, got it. The owner says “yeah sorry, not my intent” and others say “understood, I get it now”.…

It did have some context, in that it was surrounded by a Star Trek license plate frame with Borg-related quotes on it.

There is no counter argument beyond your personal disagreement which, were you the citizen in question, would get you absolutely nowhere in this scenario.

If I was offended by something, does that give me the justification to have it banished? Really?

This is one of those situations where neither side is wrong in their arguments.

I think this is a little much. If this license plate is offensive, then Star Trek is offensive. If it was the license plate by itself then it could be misread, but this in no way should be taken by anybody as an offensive license plate with the license plate frame being fairly obvious.