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this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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Who's the bash the fash guy?
Dale Earnhardt, a deceased American race car driver that is being appropriated in a sorta sarcastic manner. He was a NASCAR driver, so very popular with the twats that think immigration is brown/black people stealing white people jobs and that contrails, idk, can control your mind or something. Using him for messages like bashin the fascists is extra kooky, as the aforementioned twats who worship Dale also happen to be going the way of fascism nowadays.
As someone that grew up in the 90s watching NASCAR Dale was also hella legit. He hated the Confederate flag and was quoted as saying, "racism is a moral commitment to ignorance." I miss when rednecks understood the fight and also hated cops. Now they suck and give the rest of us a bad name.
He was also a good guy in his community. A church called his number once by accident when asking for donations for reparis and he was like "hold on a minute" and went down to the church with a check for the full amount they had been trying to raise, telling them something like 'I better not see a word about this in the paper'.
Absolutely a stand up guy
I love that quote, and it's so reusable.
i grew up in a rural area where nascar is very popular (i personally never cared for it or paid much attention) and never understood the seemingly irrational hatred some people seemed to have for mr earnheardt, but that one quote makes it all make sense. thanks for clearing that up for me.
That is badass, I would define driving cars so fast that you are a celebrity and then using that celebrity status to stick a middle finger up to racism rampant in the fanbase and culture of the motorsport your career hinges on as "Living The Dream".
That’s a small local car racing league in the U.S. btw ;)
Not just local cars. Toyota, Honda, and SAAb all had stock cars, or in SAAb's case, trucks.
I kept wondering if it was because all nascar drivers do is turn left. But him being used as a meme is never explained directly or contextually.
It's because he was extremely vocal about hating the Confederate flag, and also vocal about racism being "stupid."
The dude was clearly left leaning in a sport that has mostly right leaning fans
Fuck yeah, turn left bash fash Les go
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