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[–] WhiteHawk@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How is the text related to the image? And where is the meme?

[–] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It's NASCAR legend Dale Earnhardt

The inspiration for these memes was simple: Nazis don’t deserve Saint Dale.

“The idea for the page came about back in early 2017 when the alt-right were trying to make anything they could into a racist meme, including cow’s milk,” said the person behind The Ghost of Ol Dale Earnhardt, who asked to remain anonymous. “I was pretty heavily involved in the Weird Appalachia Facebook group, where Sid Hatfield and Dolly Parton are patron saints of Cornbread Communism, and a huge fan of the Old Stone Cold page. Everything sorta clicked so I decided to combine all these influences and claim Dale as a meme for the rural southern Left, which at the time was mostly either ignored or laughed at.”

Full article from Slate