All Purpose NASCAR Thread

Well, yeah. That's usually how he works.

 

Wow. This slipped past me. Talk about ignorance to the zillionth degree. Jesus.

Washington state representative Larry Seaquist made this comment about NASCAR fans with southern roots: “These people are not the kind of people you would want living next door to you. They’d be the ones with the junky cars in the front yard and would try to slip around the law.”

 

Wow. Ummmm, wow.

 

One of his colleagues in the Washington state Legislature also said that Richard Petty looked like some guy that had been picked up for DUI -- then pawned it off as (paraphrasing) "oh, someone told me he was." He apologized, quickly.

He's lucky that libel/slander rules make it pretty damn tough for famous people to sue.

 

Yeah, that's the one.

One gets the feeling that this track won't be happening now.

 

I've covered a number of IRL races and it's not just JPM; it's all the Brazillian/South American drivers. Their women are almost inhumanly beautiful. I'm not the kind of guy who gets all drooly over women, especially pit lizards, what with me being a card-carrying misogynist and all, but these women can hypnotize you...

 

Nice blanket statement. I'm not much of a NASCAR fan, but good grief ... ignorance personified.

 

Here's what NASCAR should do: Since the legislators in Washington State don't want a bunch of hillbillies coming to their state, France and Co. should build the track in northern Oregon, about five miles from the Washington border. That way, race fans in Washington can still go to the track, but Washington State gets nothing out of the deal monetarily. I read the article and was incredulous that a group of politicians would be that rude publically. These are people who kiss the asses of anyone and everyone for fear that they may lose a vote and they have the unmitigated stupidity to rip on a group of people who are offering an opportunity for millions of dollars to pour into their state? Fuck 'em...

Just goes to show the redneck is the only group in America that it's socially acceptable to make fun of publically...

 

So it seems. :-\

 

I see your greater point, but how is redneck a "group" of people. As if they're black or something?

Seems to me that redneck has always been a derisive term for people who for, whatever reason, choose to remain backward. Rednecks could be moonshiners from Tennessee or lumberjacks from Wisconsin, there's never really been a geographical monopoly on that, though Southeners seem to take the most offense for some reason.

 

Ummmm. Read the quote and insert any group of people you choose, blacks, gays, Mexicans, fat, etc. Then judge your reaction.

“These people are not the kind of people you would want living next door to you. They’d be the ones with the junky cars in the front yard and would try to slip around the law.”

 

Ummmm. What defines redneck as a group in the same context as any of those others? How is someone who chooses to remain ignorant -- which is the way I define redneck -- categorized the same way as someone's race or sexual orientation? That makes no sense to me at all.

And that is not a knock on Southerners. I've lived down south and talked to many Southerners who were disgusted by the notion that some Southerners wrap themselves in the redneck culture and hijack it to define the south. It doesn't. Nor do rednecks solely come from the south. I've spent many a day in rural Wisconsin towns, they're chock full of rednecks.

The Washington politician should be criticized for painting too broad a brush as far as NASCAR's fan base. Clearly, not every NASCAR fan is a redneck.

But to his point, I don't want someone living next to me with junky cars in the front lawn either. I wouldn't want to live next to a redneck no matter their geographic background.