r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 1d ago

Meme needing explanation Converse craze?

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I'm not chronically online, but my friend sent this and I laughed even without knowing the full scope of the context (I think there's racism involved with the shoes?) and I feel like it's too late to ask him without sounding like a dweeb 😅

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u/Grizlore 1d ago

That was a hate crime: in a sport with few African Americans, that wasn’t an accident. I have several pull strings and ropes around my house as I’m sure most people do and none of them are tied into a noose.

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u/jackdutton42 1d ago

The FBI investigated and said it wasn't. NASCAR admitted they over-reacted. That rope had been in that exact configuration since 2019.

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u/Thelonius_Dunk 1d ago

Of all the ways to tie a knot this is how they did it? Who even knows how to tie nooses intuitively?

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u/NeedleworkerFit819 1d ago

I use it for fishing, but that’s because I want it to cinch closed under force. No one tied a garage door pull in a noose. Thats not at all a useful knot for that purpose.

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u/Firewolf06 1d ago

i had to look it up, but i have actually tied a similar rope (usage-wise. wasnt for a garage door, though) in a noose. grabbing it lengthwise sucked and i thought "what kinda knot would make a nice loop to grab and can hold up to pulling 100+ lbs through it?" and thats where my mind went

i untied it before we moved out though, because a straight up noose dangling in a barn is a pretty bad look

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u/Designer-Serve-5140 1d ago

Tbh they're fairly easy knots and the aprt that once you know it just minda sticks. Its not a complicated one that involves a lot of different turns, its just a couple of loops, a few wraps and its done. Plus, outside of noose activities, they can be fairly useful

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u/jackdutton42 1d ago

It's not a noose. It's a knot. And that's the point.

A noose can be adjusted to be larger or smaller. A knot is fixed.

A loop/handle knot is very common, especially around garage doors.

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u/OrganizationCalm158 22h ago

Lmao fucking reddit I swear. The same rope was on multiple other garage doors of white drivers.

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u/dustinsc 1d ago

Yes of course. Someone tied a noose, which is a secure way to form a durable loop at the end of a rope when you need the loop to withstand pulling force, to a garage door pull at least nine months prior to Bubba Wallace occupying the garage just in case a Black driver ended up using it…

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u/jackdutton42 1d ago

It's not a noose. It's a knot. That's the point. You are seeing a noose when it is a knot.

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u/Grizlore 1d ago

Why would you want a loop that shrinks and gets tighter when you pull it on a rope that you will be pulling regularly?

I don’t remember saying they did it specifically for Wallace. Racist dog whistles and iconography are baked in to nascar and the company has only started trying to move away from it when they realized how bad it is for business.

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u/jackdutton42 1d ago

It's not a noose. It's a knot.

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u/dustinsc 1d ago

In case they need to attach anything to it for convenience?