NASCAR fans explode with anger over Confederate flag ban: 'Good luck on filling those stands'

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June 10, 2020

By Matthew Chapman

On Wednesday, NASCAR announced the Confederate battle banner would be prohibited at all of its events and properties.

But this decision did not go over well with fans, 80 percent of whom are white and 37 percent of whom are Southerners. In no time, NASCAR’s Facebook page was flooded with enraged reactions to the ban.



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“Bubba don’t like it Bubba should go find a new profession!” wrote one commenter. “Don’t come into a sport and try to change it! Not that he’s any good anyways!”

And still others warned that NASCAR will be unable to enforce the ban in the campgrounds around the tracks.

https://www.rawstory.com/2020/06/nascar-fans-explode-with-anger-over-confederate-flag-ban-good-luck-on-filling-those-stands/

[Aristus]

1. Well, we knew that was coming.

Rednecks gotta neck...

[underpants]

4. And Bubba shall lead them

Bubba Wallace.

[underpants]

2. Corporate sponsorship talks

NASCAR is close to a death spiral anyway.

[Brother Mythos]

24. I believe you're correct about the corporate sponsorships, and the death spiral.

Fans aren't allowed in the stands at NASCAR events this year anyway. So, it's a clear indication of NASCAR ownership's desperation, that they would announced the banning of the traitors' flag at this particular time.

This move won't gain NASCAR any new fans, but it will certainly cost them some existing ones.

This banning may very well be the last nail in NASCAR's coffin.

[NRaleighLiberal]

3. wow. trump's presidency is shining a bright light on so many dark corners

of hate.

Now that they are being flushed out...what to do with them?

Lock them away with infinite cheetos but no ways to communicate out their vileness...or ever leave.

[doc03]

5. I know Trumpsters that won't watch NFL now NASCAR

what will they do?

[Aristus]

11. God, there are so many things.

Meth cooking, drunkenness, chasing cousins, feudin', spouse abuse, mangling the English language they champion so obnoxiously, overeating at the Golden Corral, etc, etc.

They'll have plenty to do...

[RainCaster]

13. Don't forget to beat the dog and screw the daughter

Or is it the other way around?

[fleur-de-lisa]

34. Corn Hole.

There’s always a corn hole competition on some obscure sports network.



(I wrote ‘corn hole’ . . . twice)

[The Magistrate]

6. Their Raging Whimpers Top Off An Enjoyable Day, Ma'am

[flor-de-jasmim]

7. Hmmm, so their slogan is "Come for the flag. Stay for the race"???

[Gothmog]

8. this males me smile

Link to tweet

[sellitman]

9. It's a waste of resources anyway

Pollution spewing race cars should be banned anyway

[SoonerPride]

10. Who are the snowflakes again?

I drink their tears.

With all the sweet tea they drink they’re not salty at all.

[LanternWaste]

12. Lion's share of NASCAR income is received by licensing its races to broadcasters.

The second largest source of income is sponsorship... again, irrelevant to whatever anti-American and subversive clothing fans may or may not want to wear to any particular race.

Ticket sales trail broadcast licensing and sponsorship by a Texas mile. Fans are little more than stage props.

[mr_lebowski]

17. That may be the case, however the sponsorships and broadcasters are dependent on there being fans

willing to watch the races in some form, either at the event or on TV.

W/no fans, there's no people at races OR TV viewership ... conditions under which pretty much any professional/for-profit sport will die.

Sooner the better AFAIC with any sort of hydrocarbon-based racing ... other than maybe dirt bikes. Those are pretty low-impact.

[LanternWaste]

30. I don't really see an noticeable drop in ratings coming from this, only fewer seats warmed.

I have a great amount of faith in their hypocrisy to preach one thing, but pop open a case of Pabst on Sunday afternoon in the privacy of their own home and simply keep watching it... regardless of the righteous rage they'll pronounce publicly.

[mr_lebowski]

33. Fair enough :) nt

[yardwork]

31. Most NASCAR fans watch the races on TV and internet.

Not that many fans actually go to the races very often. It's hot, noisy, stinks, and you come home covered in black soot.

[Hoyt]

14. Not surprising.

[Miigwech]

15. Hahahahahaahaaaahaahahaha

Can I type in any more Haha's?

[spanone]

16. tough shit rednecks

[DBoon]

18. You lost - get over it

Fly your dixie swastika in the privacy of your home if you must

[gulliver]

19. Seems like a good business decision.

Kick out the people who drive away business.

[DinahMoeHum]

20. Most of those peckerwoods couldn't afford tickets anyway. . .

. . .so it's no big loss.




#newrostrong

[sop]

21. Confederate flags should be called "Slaver Flags"

If folks are going to proudly display a symbol, they should at least be honest about it's true meaning. Don't hide behind all that "southern heritage" bullshit. It's a slavers' flag, and they're commemorating treason.

[Iggo]

39. I've been calling it the Dixie Swastika for years now.

Nice ring to it, super on-point, and it pisses ‘em off.

Win. Win. Win.

[sop]

40. If only Grant had outlawed public displays of Confederate flags and monuments after the Civil War,

like Germany did with Nazi symbols following WWII, we could have been spared all this.

[smirkymonkey]

22. Ha ha ha! Nothing like sweet, southern, redneck, racist snowflake tears!

[SheltieLover]

26. Love it!

They are slow on the uptake. They've had 155 years to get over the fact that the south lost.

Time to move on.

[Docreed2003]

23. "Back to our roots"...

Um...you mean the hillbillies with hotrods built to outrun the "revenuers" on their moonshine runs??? Jeez these people are morons.

[zak247]

25. There's going to be a backlash folks, there always is

Going back in time, the racial conflagrations have always been joined, after the kumbaya period ends, by what we have always called in civil-rights jargon, a backlash.

This incident will likely follow the same pattern.

A powerful backlash against the progress in race relations by the bigot brigade.


Fox Newsers and Tucker Carlson have already started their racist backlash against the progress coming out of the protests.

I suspect it's going to get worse and probably be led by Trump and of course, Fox

[sop]

36. I think Trump was the backlash...in 2016

Trump made things significantly worse, he undid progress in race relations and gave voice to his bigot brigade. All the recent protests are a manifestation of the real backlash taking place in 2020: against Trump.

[essme]

27. I am from Charlotte--- you should have seen the fans when

they were told they couldn't throw chicken bones anymore.

Or, god help me, when Dale Earnhardt died. NC practically shut down for three days. People saw the number three in cloud formations.

[yardwork]

28. Snowflakes.

[npk]

29. Good all around

I don't give a damn about NASCAR. Don't watch it. But I like the fact that it's making their racist alt-right fans angry and threaten to boycott their races. Quite frankly they can all do away. Races are a waste of time and like somebody else said it's a major source of pollution.

[hunter]

32. Wait, what, they can't make their own NASCAR???

Yep, that would be a burn... traitor flag lawnmower races!

[safeinOhio]

35. It'll be like the Baptist Church

and break into different branches.
1st Southern NASCAR
2nd Northern NASCAR
United Independent NASCAR
then...UU NASCAR

[NutmegYankee]

37. Aww, poor wittle snowflakes...

[a kennedy]

38. Kinda surprised the black race car driver is allowed to evenedit race.......

[Codeine]

41. Non-Athletic Sport Centered Around Rednecks.

Fuck them and fuck the Dixie Swastika.