An anti-Asian slur stayed on this Missouri license plate for decades. Here’s why

The owner eventually gave up the personalized plate after someone called it out and gained media attention.

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Shocked to find a notorious anti-Asian slur displayed on a Missouri license plate outside a St. Louis grocery store, an Asian American man wanted to know how it had cleared state review.

State law explicitly prohibits personalized plates deemed “patently offensive or contemptuous of a racial or ethnic group,” yet the configuratio…