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— Mattzel89 (@Mattzel89) June 22, 2020
Watch NASCAR stand with Bubba Wallace
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One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen in NASCAR
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Hopefully there is security footage of that stall, so they can out the pig that did that.
Well done, society of left turners, well done.
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Haven’t watched much NASCAR for a while. Might have to start again. Got to admit I was not expecting
any changes, everthe last few weeks of changes from NASCAR and I’m glad to see all of it. For an organization that over the last several years that has seemed as selectively blind to universal rights as unfortunately a lot of the country right now, this seems like a twilight zone episode. Good on ’em. It’s an uphill battle and I hope it continues when the need to project an image isn’t so urgent.And that the neanderthal SOB that did the noose thing never works again.
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I posted this on Oppo’s FB page. Curious what Hooniverse thinks.
I love this, but do you all think it’ll make a difference in the fan base? I really hope it does, don’t get me wrong. However, most (all?) drivers are in a different socioeconomic status and might be more progressive than the average fan; ideally most have traveled around the world, gotten some good perspective on life, class, and race. So it isn’t as surprising to see them stand with Bubba. I hope there ends up being some real change across their supporters, which in the end (via advertisers) is where NASCAR what always follow.
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Also, I first saw Bubba Wallace on Ridiculousness (it’s a guilty pleasure on MTV) and he was great. Not being a NASCAR fan, I had very little idea of who he is. I’m a fan now.
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You have a good point, but with that background, such a highly symbolic stand is all the more worthwhile. I honestly can’t say I hate anyone, and I wouldn’t wish death upon anyone especially. Doing so on principle, and then based on colour, looks or origin, was frowned upon intellectually in the 19th century already. Random hate is stupid and that’s about all there is to this discussion. It’s about time for society to agree on this 100%.
We don’t usually talk politics here. But for the underlying issues of racism, hate and systemic inequality to get fixed, you guys need to straighten your educational system, wealth distribution, health system and more. It’s a tall task and from afar, I can’t say people are even working on it.
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You have a good point, but with that background, such a highly symbolic stand is all the more worthwhile. I honestly can’t say I hate anyone, and I wouldn’t wish death upon anyone especially. Doing so on principle, and then based on colour, looks or origin, was frowned upon intellectually in the 19th century already. Random hate is stupid and that’s about all there is to this discussion. It’s about time for society to agree on this 100%.
We don’t usually talk politics here. But for the underlying issues of racism, hate and systemic inequality to get fixed, you guys need to straighten your educational system, wealth distribution, health system and more. It’s a tall task and from afar, I can’t say people are even working on it.
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Good reply, I certainly hope so. The fact that this happened (the noose) means there is still a lot of work to do. The fact that some changes are being seen within NASCAR leadership is promising.
And yeah, racism is in a weak point in some respects, and strong in others. I’ll skip my thoughts about how it’s been emboldened in recent years, ideally that has peaked and will go away now. I saw a good meme about a statue being pulled down and you can see the centuries of roots holding it in place underneath. Some symbolic things might help change, but we have a lot of work to do.
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Also, I first saw Bubba Wallace on Ridiculousness (it’s a guilty pleasure on MTV) and he was great. Not being a NASCAR fan, I had very little idea of who he is. I’m a fan now.
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All this for Juicy Smolliet part II? Come on, these were hand loops on the pull ropes for the garage doors. If you look at pit walk through videos way back in 2016 they’re there on many of the door pull cords. It’s a bowline, not even a slipknot let alone a hangman’s noose.
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Yeah. This took an interesting turn…
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Now that cooler heads have prevailed…
-I totally get why an RPM employee might have assumed the knot forming the pull handle on the garage door’s rope was possibly a hateful message to his driver, after the last few weeks of NASCAR trying to follow the zeitgeist with things like banning the southern rebel battle flag & the RPM 43 car recently running with BLM sponsorship.
-I totally get the other drivers & crews following that assumption and standing with their competitor/colleague/friend. NASCAR is high profile in tHeSe uNcErTaiN TiMeS right now. (cross-reference: Kyle Larson, another NASCAR Drive for Diversity graduate but of partial Japanese descent, slinging dirt in 410 outlaw sprints now instead of driving the CGR #42 McDonalds/Capital One/(etc.) Chevy, because he said a particularly-wrong word on his comms trying to get the attention of someone else on his comms channel during a simulated race that people were watching for lack of real races.)
-I really don’t like the rush to judgement that some person out of the ~400 or so people allowed into the infield (~10 people per car, ~40 cars) is a horrible person who would do such a thing.
-I also really don’t like seeing the NASCAR press falling in lockstep to declare that what they were told must, therefore, (however horrible) be true, in service of the 24-hour news cycle where the truth matters less than getting published first. (I blame Twitter.)
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