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Benjamin ll He/Him ll Disability and Motorsports || Tyler Reddick enthusiast
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Tonight, I am thinking about 8 times NASCAR reminded me that the needle can be moved, even in spaces that often feel like the very bottom of the barrel:

1. NASCAR rejecting advertisements that feature assault-style weapons, in response to staggering gun violence and mass shooting events in the United States

2. NASCAR explicitly including in its rulebook their employees' right to protest/kneel during the National Anthem

3. NASCAR banning the Confederate flag, even as its culture looooves flags and often thinks it loves the Confederacy

4. Tyler Reddick being repeatedly and very publicly outspoken in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, against Trump's excoriation of it, and naming the role of systemic racism as such (even though RCR made him delete some of it/pulled media appearances)

5. RPM running Bubba Wallace's sponsorship-free #BlackLivesMatter car, as well as JGR and Denny Hamlin's FedEx/National Civil Rights Museum car, coupled with Hamlin's explicit narration of the message and wherefores

6. Joey Logano speaking publicly about his hesitations about the COVID vaccine, and sharing his information-gathering and process that led to him coming around and getting the vaccine--an expression of intellectual humility while also modeling the process for others.

7. YAAASCAR, which is simultaneously just rainbow capitalism but also not, because nothing on this earth is more baldly capitalism incarnate than NASCAR, and in the context of the culture loops back around to being real and important.

8. Samantha Busch being diplomatically but undeniably cold about having to spend time with JD Vance and his opinions on reproductive rights/IVF.

This is real racing.

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It’s uncanny how similar Trump is acting like Hitler. People are now doing the Nazi salute. They’re drawing the symbol. The KKK was seen in Kentucky asking people to join them. ICE has been ripping families apart. Companies have pulled back Diversity Initiatives. We’re no longer part of WHO and there won’t be any communication from the CDC at least until February 1st. We’re being censored and the news can’t be trusted. Thousands of Americans didn’t know there were protests against Trump yesterday outside the U.S. Quotes from The Handmaid’s Tale and Anne Frank have been compared to what’s going on right now.

According to The Lemkin Institute for Genocide Studies and Prevention the U.S. has officially been given a red flag alert for Genocide.

I’m exhausted but I will never stop being angry.

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pearlmarley

this blog hates donald trump

Look how many people hate him. I’m pretty damn happy about that 😁😁😁😁😁😁

I’ve never reblogged something so fast

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