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Chess is racist
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Can somebody waken up the trolls...I'm getting bored....Where's belente when you need her.....
I wholeheartedly concur Lago..............
Also prejudiced against bald people. Why are the bald pawns the weakest piece on the board?
I'd say chess was "institutionally ageist"...against young people. I've made this point before. It's no accident that the term "square" is used for out of touch older people. Where do we have squares ? On a chess board !
I hope younger people don't think I'm being patronising with this observation: Young people are very good at giving their attention to rectangles. (I know from a pedagogical point of view a square is a rectangle, but I interject this point to ambush the semanticist strawman arguers...)
Anyway. Young people are good at looking at rectangular shapes. I'm thinking of their phones. To the point that they often knock us old gits over while walking and texting owing to the intensity of their concentration. Chess therefore should abandon it's "squareness" - and perhaps mobile phones should be square to protect the elderly ?
Could be worse.
They are just colours...like some people say: "It's not the gun who kills, it's the person holding/firing it." The game is not racist, but unfortunately some players are...I played a guy who after losing, started the chat by calling me a 'Swedish whore'. Then continued with homophobic remarks, and after I revealed that I am of Asian origin -he then ranted racial comments...Btw. I won the game, and he had black -does that make me a racist too? ;-)
or even this set..
Jan 17, 2015
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GiantEagle wrote:
Someone told me chess is racist since white always moves first
Must have been a liberal. Of course they neglected to mention black always moves first in checkers.
capablanca2014 wrote:
GiantEagle wrote:
Someone told me chess is racist since white always moves first
Must have been a liberal. Of course they neglected to mention black always moves first in checkers.
Are you related to Countdown?
Jan 24, 2015
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I've never thought like that but maybe it should be start with black every second time?
chessmicky wrote:
It wasn't a liberal, it wasn't a conservative. it was an imbecile! Chess pieces are not people, they have no feelings. A Black person can play the white pieces and a white person can play the black pieces, so where's the racism? If you always made the person with the darker skin tone play black, now that would be racist!
tkbunny wrote:
at times like this, all i can say is
That guy on youtube got it all wrong...the lyrics are 'Live is Life' as in Singing Live is what Life is all about...he got the 'na na na na na' bits right though...
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GideonDerTactician wrote:
I can't help but get a little angry when threads like this come up :(.
*bites tongue*
GiantEagle escreveu:
GiantEagle escreveu: Someone told me chess is racist since white always moves first
Someone told me chess is racist since white always moves first
Someone please lock this forum, there is no point in arguing about this.
....this thread is 8 yrs old.
Its a game.