The hypocrisy has just thrown me overboard at this point. You have idiots coming from all directions when they clearly don't understand the sport but think that they know what it should be doing. Everyone keeps thinking that NASCAR is against their ideological side.
In reality they're mostly all overreacting. I get it, NASCAR and the NASCAR community jumped the gun. Overall we should have waited for all of the evidence to come out and let those who's job it is to investigate do it. We gotta learn from this as well
But these political grifters who only jump on stories to fit their ideological corners don't care about making anything better. They will cater to their base like always because the "evil left wingers" or "redneck right wingers" are always wrong.
You see people on the right say that NASCAR is willing to let America burn because they support Pride Month and #BlackLivesMatter yet they were awfully pro NASCAR when President Donald Trump was at the Daytona 500. Trust me I'd know, I was there at Daytona!
And on the left you have people who claimed that NASCAR was this racist institution after the Kyle Larson incident only to suddenly love it now because the sport because it hit on their talking points and they are "taking their side"
There's been so many times that I've seen people try to spin stories about NASCAR to fit their narratives. I've seen people angry at the sport for having Trump at the 500 and getting too political but not have a problem with Joe Biden sinking $15M of advertising into it.
People flipped shit over the #BackTheBlue car at Homestead. Nevermind that this team has done the same thing for years now and that it was in no means meant to undermine Bubba's message.
Over the last two and a half years that I have been getting deeper into knowing the sport's inner workings I've been amazed by how many different people have come together for a common cause. We don't care about skin color, politics, gender, exc. We have the common love of NASCAR
I have friends in the sport that span from by the book hardcore conservatives to Bernie bro hardcore socialists, those who believe in big government and those who are libertarian in every sense of the word. It doesn't matter though because we judge each other by our character.
When we say that it's a NASCAR family we mean it. We have different views in life but we come together to work for a common goal. You can bet your ass that we disagree, it'd be scary if we didn't, but it doesn't have to divide us the way these outsiders are trying to.
So to sum it up, we have work to do in all aspects to get to where we want to be. Whether you're inside or outside of the sport we need to work for that, and if you don't want to help get better then you can kiss my ass on the way out.
You can follow @IceTitan80.
Tip: mention @twtextapp on a Twitter thread with the keyword “unroll” to get a link to it.

Latest Threads Unrolled: