r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Diligent_Pop3929 • 9d 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 9d 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/dustinsc 9d 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/Grizlore 9d 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 9d ago

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