NASCAR Mandates Sensitivity Training For Kyle Busch

No. 18 driver Kyle Busch is being required by NASCAR to attend sensitivity training before the start of the 2022 season for using the r-word during a recent post-race interview. 

NASCAR Driver Kyle Busch Uses R-Word

After Sunday’s race at Martinsville, Busch used the “offensive” word when he was complaining about being hit by Brad Keselowski as his rival desperately tried to pass him at the final straight.

“I mean, where was he going? What was he going to do? Spin me out?” Busch said. “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.”

Amazingly, NASCAR tweeted the offending video out to its hundreds of thousands of followers. The tweet has not been deleted but NASCAR did bleep out Busch’s use of the r-word

The Joe Gibbs Racing driver later tried to apologize for what he said on Twitter.

Busch wrote, “In one of my post-race interviews I used a word I should never use and I want to apologize for it.” But, as we all know, apologies are never enough these days.

NASCAR Releases Statement On Kyle Busch

The damage was done and Busch was now in the hot seat.

NASCAR released a statement on Monday saying that Kyle Busch would need to attend sensitivity training before 2022 for using the “offensive” term.

“Kyle Busch will be required to complete sensitivity training before the start of the 2022 season as a result of language used during a post-race interview that is in violation of NASCAR’s conduct guidelines,” NASCAR’s statement read.

Frontstretch reported that NASCAR’s rulebook states: 

“NASCAR members shall not make or cause to be made a public statement and/or communication that criticizes, ridicules, or otherwise disparages another person based upon that person’s race, color, creed, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, religion, age or handicapping condition.”

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Not The First Time This Has Happened

In January, NASCAR Camping World Truck Series rookie Hailie Deegan was also forced to undergo sensitivity training for using this same word. 

“Earlier tonight I used an insensitive word during an online race being broadcast on Twitch,” Deegan said in a groveling apology. “It was inappropriate slang and a stupid thing to do. I apologize to everyone who was offended by it. There’s no excuse for it, and I know I have to do better for my sponsors and my fans.”

This is all yet another example of NASCAR going full “woke” in a desperate attempt to appease the radical left.

There was a time when NASCAR was one of the biggest and baddest sports out there, but clearly, those days are gone.

These days, NASCAR seems more worried about being politically correct than the actual sport of racing.

Soon NASCAR fans will join the disenfranchised ranks of those who once loved the NFL, NBA and more. If they haven’t already.

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