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goodbye27
goodbye27
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Jun 6, 2020
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#41

i suppory the idea. in backgammon we roll dice to find who is gonna go first. wait.. actually in otb games we hide pawns in hands and oppoent chooses one of them and be thst color. well idk now :)

WSama
WSama
Jun 6, 2020
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#42

People generally tend to favour lighter colors for a number of reasons:

  • Security: less camouflage in the light than in the dark.
  • Primal instinct: people sleep when it's dark and they wake when it's light.
  • Religion: scary things go boom in the dark, switch on the light.
  • Appearance: many women generally prefer lighter skin because if they're 'ugly' then a dark skin tone only emphasizes their features even more. It's basically easier to hide 'imperfections' with lighter tones. It's called contrast.
  • Etc.

All if these things have undeniably contributed to racism to some extent. The problem is with people themselves and their tendency to be narrow minded. The nature of it's either yes or no, black or white, 1 or 2, that's your poison right there.

WSama
WSama
Jun 6, 2020
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#43
STartakower64 wrote:

PPS -- Also, Floyd was no MLK or Ghandi. He was a multiple-felon. Not saying that makes it okay he died. But fact is if he were White (or Asian or just about anything else) and died nobody would care. Again, let's use our heads. Doubtless, my freedom to express an opinion will draw haters. But can't just be one angle on this.

 

 That's just stupid, son. Everybody would've cared. Can't you see that what happened was an outrageous crime?

EscherehcsE
EscherehcsE
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Jun 6, 2020
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#44

Oh yeah, I almost forgot - in b4 tha lock, lol

JeanMarcKapisu
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Jun 6, 2020
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#45
STartakower64 a écrit :

We should all stop drinking milk (too white), abolish white weddings and darken snow whenever it should fall with lumps of coal. Also, all paper should come black as night, irregardless of whether it makes writing difficult, since ink will remain predominately black. 

PS -- At a certain point you gotta use your head. Victimhood enabling is our new sport. The world's been force-fed a narrative that says all blacks are "victims" and everyone else is a racist scumbag. Sorry, not buying it. Facts are: some blacks are scumbags and plenty of non-blacks are pretty decent people. Good and bad in every shade.

PPS -- Also, Floyd was no MLK or Ghandi. He was a multiple-felon. Not saying that makes it okay he died. But fact is if he were White (or Asian or just about anything else) and died nobody would care. Again, let's use our heads. Doubtless, my freedom to express an opinion will draw haters. But can't just be one angle on this.

 

Milk is good, we won't stop drinking it. Adding some good chocolate in it is also a good option 🙂

EscherehcsE
EscherehcsE
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Jun 6, 2020
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#46
JeanMarcKapisu wrote:
STartakower64 a écrit :

We should all stop drinking milk (too white), abolish white weddings and darken snow whenever it should fall with lumps of coal. Also, all paper should come black as night, irregardless of whether it makes writing difficult, since ink will remain predominately black. 

PS -- At a certain point you gotta use your head. Victimhood enabling is our new sport. The world's been force-fed a narrative that says all blacks are "victims" and everyone else is a racist scumbag. Sorry, not buying it. Facts are: some blacks are scumbags and plenty of non-blacks are pretty decent people. Good and bad in every shade.

PPS -- Also, Floyd was no MLK or Ghandi. He was a multiple-felon. Not saying that makes it okay he died. But fact is if he were White (or Asian or just about anything else) and died nobody would care. Again, let's use our heads. Doubtless, my freedom to express an opinion will draw haters. But can't just be one angle on this.

 

Milk is good, we won't stop drinking it. Adding some good chocolate in it is also a good option 🙂

Not if you're on keto...  :-P

davidrxy
davidrxy
Jun 6, 2020
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#47

I'm just starting but I have a slightly higher win rate playing as black.

 

Monie49
Monie49
Jun 6, 2020
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#48
Idiotic conversation
EscherehcsE
EscherehcsE
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Jun 6, 2020
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#49
davidrxyang wrote:

I'm just starting but I have a slightly higher win rate playing as black.

 

When you're just starting to play chess, there's very little difference between the white and black win rates. With all the blunders on both sides, it's almost like it's a random win generator... happy.png

My present rating is low enough that I usually don't care which color I draw...

robmadore
robmadore
Jun 6, 2020
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#50
This is why racism will never go away. Everything has to always be about race. A great game that has absolutely nothing to do with race is now about race. Come on people.
JeanMarcKapisu
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Jun 6, 2020
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#51
Monie49 a écrit :
Idiotic conversation

I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.

Abraham Lincoln

EscherehcsE
EscherehcsE
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Jun 6, 2020
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#52

A *bump* for the silly thread, lol

sndeww
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Jun 6, 2020
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#53
EscherehcsE wrote:

A *bump* for the silly thread, lol

No pls. Some things should stay in the past

Fyry_lyghtnyng
Fyry_lyghtnyng
Jun 6, 2020
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#54
STartakower64 wrote:

We should all stop drinking milk (too white), abolish white weddings and darken snow whenever it should fall with lumps of coal. Also, all paper should come black as night, irregardless of whether it makes writing difficult, since ink will remain predominately black. 

PS -- At a certain point you gotta use your head. Victimhood enabling is our new sport. The world's been force-fed a narrative that says all blacks are "victims" and everyone else is a racist scumbag. Sorry, not buying it. Facts are: some blacks are scumbags and plenty of non-blacks are pretty decent people. Good and bad in every shade.

PPS -- Also, Floyd was no MLK or Ghandi. He was a multiple-felon. Not saying that makes it okay he died. But fact is if he were White (or Asian or just about anything else) and died nobody would care. Again, let's use our heads. Doubtless, my freedom to express an opinion will draw haters. But can't just be one angle on this.

 

Yes. But would it not be racist to make everything black? White people are not the only people that can be racist, everyone seems to forget that. We have to have absolute equality. Exactly half of the snow has to be darkened. 

peterbrandt1000
peterbrandt1000
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Jun 6, 2020
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#55
It’s racist to switch it
bilalakhtar110
bilalakhtar110
Jun 6, 2020
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#56

Junaid , salman,hasan,usman ,khalid agree to this 

llama44
llama44
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Jun 6, 2020
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#57

Trying to play the same opening with the other color is actually pretty hard because the left and right sides are switched and it's hard to remember the typical moves and plans... try it! It's funny how something so simple is disorienting.

Anyway, more to the topic, chess is not racist, but having a black moves first event or something is an interesting idea especially during these times in the US.

llama44
llama44
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Jun 6, 2020
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#58
STartakower64 wrote:

We should all stop drinking milk (too white), abolish white weddings and darken snow whenever it should fall with lumps of coal. Also, all paper should come black as night, irregardless of whether it makes writing difficult, since ink will remain predominately black. 

PS -- At a certain point you gotta use your head. Victimhood enabling is our new sport. The world's been force-fed a narrative that says all blacks are "victims" and everyone else is a racist scumbag. Sorry, not buying it. Facts are: some blacks are scumbags and plenty of non-blacks are pretty decent people. Good and bad in every shade.

PPS -- Also, Floyd was no MLK or Ghandi. He was a multiple-felon. Not saying that makes it okay he died. But fact is if he were White (or Asian or just about anything else) and died nobody would care. Again, let's use our heads. Doubtless, my freedom to express an opinion will draw haters. But can't just be one angle on this.

 

Sure, some people use good movements (like wanting equality) to promote bad things (like victimhood). So it's not either one or the other. There is good to movements like this (I hope that's obvious).

You say if the police killed an innocent white man no one would care... but I think that's the point. They would care. The officer would likely be charged and punished. Meanwhile when a minority is beaten or killed it's overlooked, and when it's not overlooked people bring up things like their criminal record to demonize the victim.

For example, if a white person had died would you say "yeah, but he was a felon"? Or would you say the officer was a POS?

Fyry_lyghtnyng
Fyry_lyghtnyng
Jun 6, 2020
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#59

Just look at South Africa.

Fyry_lyghtnyng
Fyry_lyghtnyng
Jun 6, 2020
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#60
long_quach wrote:

Chess is racism.

Different nations fight each other.

Different clans fight each other. Like in Samurai movies. The Takeda clan fights the Echigo clan.

In Chinese Chess, the names in the middle of the board are the names of the 2 fighting dynasties.

 

Um, racism and war are not the same thing. 

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