"Were the target of this scorn anybody but white males who
are right-leaning in their politics the Times wouldn’t have
dared print this."
NASCAR Fans = Huns
By Rob on Default
Say Anything
An unbelievable amount of condescension in this New York Times article:
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For a certain segment of the population, Nascar’s raid on American culture — its logo festoons everything from cellphones to honey jars to post office walls to panties; race coverage, it can seem, has bumped everything else off television; and, most piercingly, Nascar dads now get to pick our presidents — triggers the kind of fearful trembling the citizens of Gaul felt as the Huns came thundering over the hills. To these people, stock-car racing represents all that’s unsavory about red-state America: fossil-fuel bingeing; lust for violence; racial segregation; run-away Republicanism; anti-intellectualism (how much brain matter is required to go fast and turn left, ad infinitum?); the corn-pone memes of God and guns and guts; crass corporatization; Toby Keith anthems; and, of course, exquisitely bad fashion sense. What’s more, they simply don’t get it. What’s the appeal of watching . . . traffic? It’s as if ‘’Hee Haw'’ reruns were dominating prime time, and the Republic was slapping its collective knee at Grandpa Jones’s ‘’What’s for supper?'’ routine. With Nascar’s recent purchase of a swath of real estate on Staten Island, where it intends to plop down an 80,000-seat racetrack and retail center for the untapped New York City market, the onslaught seems poised on the brink of full-out conquest. Cover your ears, blue America. The Huns are revving their engines.
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And that’s just the first paragraph.
As an Instapundit reader notes:
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“Replace ‘NASCAR’ with ‘Hip-hop,’ and then ask yourself
whether this would have run in the Times.”
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Were the target of this scorn anybody but white males who are right-leaning in their politics the Times wouldn’t have dared print this. As it is, with an attitude that has become all to familiar on the left, there is absolutely no problem with targeting the right for scorn and derision.
As I’ve said many times before, welcome to the Howard Dean era of political discourse.
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