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NASCAR sending Kyle Busch to sensitivity training for using R-word during interview

Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:40 am
Posted by High C
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Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:40 am
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NASCAR driver Kyle Busch has been ordered to undergo sensitivity training before the start of the 2022 for using an insensitive term during an interview after Sunday's race at Martinsville


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"I mean, where was he going? What was he going to do? Spin me out? He was trying to do a Harvick is what he was trying to do. For what? For second place? For what? He wasn’t going to transfer through with that. Freaking retarded, man," Busch said.


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Busch later tweeted, "In one of my post-race interviews I used a word I should never use and I want to apologize for it," but the series said the language violated its conduct guidelines.


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Prior to the start of the 2021 season, NASCAR Truck Series driver Hailie Deegan received a similar sanction for saying during a livestreamed online simulation race, "Who’s the retard behind me?"


The absolute horror. And soon the “you have to know better than to say something like that today” brigade. You know what you have to be careful about saying today? Anything. The word police have the power.

Posted by HempHead
Big Sky Country
Member since Mar 2011
55507 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:42 am to
Busch is a pussy for apologizing.
Posted by Usual Suspect
Living rent free
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2267 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:43 am to
The response by NASCAR and the media is so retarded.
Posted by Cosmo
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Member since Oct 2003
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Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:44 am to
I think Justin Thomas told Polo to frick off when they wanted him to go to sensitivity training
Posted by Master of Sinanju
Member since Feb 2012
11367 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:47 am to
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R-word
Redskins? Boot him out of racing.
Posted by tiggerthetooth
Big Momma's House
Member since Oct 2010
61345 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:48 am to
Re-education camps were a joke a few years ago. Not so much a joke now, huh?
Posted by David Ricky
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Member since Sep 2015
24251 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:50 am to
Dale is rolling in his grave right now
Posted by Ghost of Colby
Alberta, overlooking B.C.
Member since Jan 2009
11291 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:51 am to
He didn’t even call someone a retard. He described that person’s actions as “retarded”


re·tard·ed
Very foolish or stupid
Posted by TheDeathValley
New Orleans, LA
Member since Sep 2010
17191 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:52 am to
When I was a grad student I used the phrase “retarded” and my boss pulled me aside and told me my colleague had a special needs brother and it throughly pissed him off.

Haven’t used the phrase to this day. I don’t judge others that do, but I removed it from my vocabulary in the derogatory sense.
Posted by castorinho
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Posted on 11/2/21 at 8:53 am to
Damn, if we can't use the hard R in NASCAR then what the hell can we do
Posted by tigerpimpbot
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Member since Nov 2011
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Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:00 am to
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The absolute horror. And soon the “you have to know better than to say something like that today” brigade. You know what you have to be careful about saying today? Anything. The word police have the power.


I have a really good friend with an 4 year autistic son and he told me he hates the word because it makes him sad for his son. So I personally don't use it. I was a serial user for decades.

But sensitivity training is straight up meaningless virtue signaling by Nascar.
Posted by thegambler
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2012
1438 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:03 am to
The pussification of America continues.
Posted by Boring
Member since Feb 2019
3792 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:33 am to
Kyle Busch is the perfect a-hole personality with FU money to tell NASCAR that they should go frick themselves. It’s shameful that he caved.

Kyle Larson dropped an N-bomb and is still out here winning races.
Posted by BZ504
Texas
Member since Oct 2005
9539 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:40 am to
Didn’t even know what the R word was.
Posted by slinger1317
Northshore
Member since Sep 2005
5885 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:50 am to
Streisand Effect

If he wouldn't have apologized this would have never been news
Posted by QJenk
Atl, Ga
Member since Jan 2013
15362 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 9:52 am to
Well that's retarded.
Posted by Rhino5
Atlanta
Member since Nov 2014
28907 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 10:01 am to
Didn’t know that word was illegal. Good lord.
Posted by TiptonInSC
Aiken, SC
Member since Dec 2012
18924 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 10:24 am to
NASCAR President Steve Phelps is soy to the bone
Posted by Jcorye1
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Member since Dec 2007
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Posted on 11/2/21 at 10:31 am to
The best part is he threatened to fight another driver, but they get mad at him for a word.
Posted by SteelerBravesDawg
Member since Sep 2020
34984 posts
Posted on 11/2/21 at 11:19 am to
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He was trying to do a Harvick is what he was trying to do.


He got a shot in at Harvick. That's great. He gets points in my book for that.

I used to hate his guts but I have come to really like and enjoy that motherfricker. Guy tells it like it is and is a breath of fresh air, and a really good dude on top of it. He is the most naturally talented driver the sport has had since the late Tim Richmond and its a shame he missed the cut to battle for the title.

He shouldn't of called Brad retarded, but for NASCAR to make him undergo sensitivity training is ridiculous. He apologized, he knows he messed up. That should be the end of it.

I have a first cousin who's 6 days younger than me who's mentally handicapped. He has the mind of a 7 yr.old. My 6 year old daughter is more developed mentally than he is. I don't like the word being used as a derogatory slur due to him. But the context that Rowdy used it wasn't derogatory.
This post was edited on 11/2/21 at 11:33 am
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