NASCAR Chief: Ban Confederate Flag

[Lakhota]

OK Shitting Bull. Thanks for acknowledging you lied.

It was just a meme, Pee-wee.

 

[Pogo]

Earlier this week, NASCAR said it backed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's call to remove the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds, and noted that it bars the flag symbol in any official NASCAR capacity.

But banning it on race track property is a much larger task for NASCAR, which began as a Southern sport and many of its fans still embrace the flag. It flies atop campers and at camp sites at many races as fans spend entire weekends in either the infield or surrounding areas of track property.

The size of the crowd, and NASCAR's own acknowledgment that fans have a right to freedom of expression, would make it difficult to police the presence of the flag.

This is the inevitable conundrum of ignoring the fact that it's not just a racial or political symbol but a cultural symbol.

You can't ban or legislate culture. Try to do that and its proponents who were only marginally interested suddenly get more interested. And rightly so.

"Cultural symbol"? Owning people like property? That's really fucking hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

What's a "laugh" is unilaterally declaring that somebody else's symbol means "X", and that's all it means.

Actually it's not funny. It's hubris and it's ignorance.

 

[Katzndogz]

Give them two weeks and they'll forget they ever said it.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[bucs90]

Earlier this week, NASCAR said it backed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's call to remove the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds, and noted that it bars the flag symbol in any official NASCAR capacity.

But banning it on race track property is a much larger task for NASCAR, which began as a Southern sport and many of its fans still embrace the flag. It flies atop campers and at camp sites at many races as fans spend entire weekends in either the infield or surrounding areas of track property.

The size of the crowd, and NASCAR's own acknowledgment that fans have a right to freedom of expression, would make it difficult to police the presence of the flag.

This is the inevitable conundrum of ignoring the fact that it's not just a racial or political symbol but a cultural symbol.

You can't ban or legislate culture. Try to do that and its proponents who were only marginally interested suddenly get more interested. And rightly so.

"Cultural symbol"? Owning people like property? That's really fucking hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

Thats pretty fucked up...owning people. America stopped it 150 years ago.

But...in Africa and the Middle East and SE Asia...still happening. Yet...rednecks who got bad history lessons are the devil?

 

[cnm]

Wow.

The Confederate Flag is soon gonna be as taboo as the Nazi flag.

Well they both symbolise ideas of racial superiority.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Katzndogz]

Its like the north lost 150 years ago and now the libs want a do-over.

It's gotten so ridiculous that it's downright amusing.

 

[cnm]

What's a "laugh" is unilaterally declaring that somebody else's symbol means "X", and that's all it means.

Actually it's not funny. It's hubris and it's ignorance.

Fair enough. It's only the cornerstone and foundation, not everything.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Missourian]

This is the inevitable conundrum of ignoring the fact that it's not just a racial or political symbol but a cultural symbol.

You can't ban or legislate culture. Try to do that and its proponents who were only marginally interested suddenly get more interested. And rightly so.

Exactly. I've seen more Rebel Flags in the last 7 days than I have in the last seven years. Watch NASCAR walk this back (if it's even true, gotta triple check anything Lakhota posts) by the end of the week.

 

[Ernie S.]

OK Shitting Bull. Thanks for acknowledging you lied.

It was just a meme, Pee-wee.

You posted it. It was a lie, liar.

Own up to it, you gutless wonder.

 

[DarkFury]

Another sad day for racist cracker peckerwoods.

Injuns fought on the side of the British.
Injuns fought on the side of the south.
Injuns EARNED the spot they now have.
LOSERS.

 

[Zoom-boing]

Er, no. That would be inept black drivers.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Muhammed]

Earlier this week, NASCAR said it backed South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley's call to remove the Confederate flag from state capitol grounds, and noted that it bars the flag symbol in any official NASCAR capacity.

But banning it on race track property is a much larger task for NASCAR, which began as a Southern sport and many of its fans still embrace the flag. It flies atop campers and at camp sites at many races as fans spend entire weekends in either the infield or surrounding areas of track property.

The size of the crowd, and NASCAR's own acknowledgment that fans have a right to freedom of expression, would make it difficult to police the presence of the flag.

If that's what you think it symbolized then you are simply ignorant of reality.


This is the inevitable conundrum of ignoring the fact that it's not just a racial or political symbol but a cultural symbol.

You can't ban or legislate culture. Try to do that and its proponents who were only marginally interested suddenly get more interested. And rightly so.

"Cultural symbol"? Owning people like property? That's really fucking hilarious! Thanks for the laugh.

 

[Lakhota]

Maybe NASCAR will become a place for decent folks.

 

[Ernie S.]

It is now. You don't participate

 

[Lakhota]

It is now. You don't participate

Yeah, right.

 

[Ernie S.]