If someone had hung a noose in the garage of NASCAR driver Bubba Wallace, that would have been a racist outrage.
Granted, there wasn't a hate crime involved, and it didn't take long for everyone to suss out that the "noose" (actually just a knot on a garage pull-rope) had been there since the previous autumn, meaning it wasn't put there to target Wallace, who is black.
However, the stench of the scandal-that-wasn't still remains -- and any time the societal aspect of stock car racing is brought up, talk of the Bubba Wallace "noose" isn't far behind.
It's been months since that happened, of course, but you'd know exactly what I was talking about if I simply uttered the words "Bubba Wallace incident." I don't even need to bring up the details or the investigation -- you're probably aware of them. It's still fresh in our minds despite the fact no hate crime actually...
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NASCAR has "Goodyear'd" themselves! Just like F1!!!
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