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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
On the one hand, a neutral government regulatory entity shouldn't be picking winners and losers when it comes to political ideology anyway. That's not their role, and the position that assimilation or USA-style "melting pot" immigration strategy is the better policy than a cultural mosaic is a legitimate political position, whether we agree with it or not.
On the other hand, refusing to grant someone a license plate that says what they want on it is perfectly within the agency's power. You're effectively plastering your preferred plate wording over an official Manitoba trademark, and Manitoba doesn't want its brand associated with things that are going to upset people, even if the people getting upset are hopelessly, incorrigably stupid.
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It’s not even so much that Manitoba didn’t want a plate to say assimilate. Given their indigenous population it’s not totally unreasonable.
What made me laugh was the moron Keith at MPI who
a) demanded a full review of all custom license plates in the entire ####ing province over one plate that wasn’t even obviously offensive
b) vowed to severely punish the employees who approved the plate despite the fact they did all necessary due diligence to determine the plate was ok and
c) even after he was told it was a Star Trek reference didn’t just say what any non-moron would say (regardless of the intention it’s questionable enough in other context to be removed) and instead doubles down on the stupid by flat out stating that assimilate is an inherently offensive term even when referring to a fictional alien race and therefore isn’t appropriate in any context.