WHY is Bobby Fischer still respected in the chess community???

I have not seen one single reference to any of these comments. Edit with references; otherwise every claim is just a bunch of trash with no proof whatsoever. 

@LadyMisil; I am free to express myself.Are you?

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@LadyMisil; I am free to express myself.Are you?

Yes, I am free to express myself. Why do you ask?

@LadyMisil; wish you the best of luck.

Still proposterous, what you originally said was this: "The United States nearly avoided WWII but one of the rallying cries was Hitler being a madman and that he would eventually exterminate everyone but the Aryans."

The extermination programs were not common knowledge in '41 at all, you really want to go into this? You'll only end up ridiculing yourself even more. I've got a 2 volume book on WWII propoganda on my shelf, I dare you to find one piece of US pre-'41 propoganda that warns for racial extermination. 

Do us all a pleasure and stick to whatever subject you do know something about. Please. 

Then you don't live in North Korea, which was obvious, if you lived there you wouldn't have access to this website.

@kingofshedinjas; 

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Because in chess, we give respect for the one thing that earns it - one's results at the board. We don't play the "Moral outrage" game that constantly happens in the NFL and elsewhere where we feel we have the right to judge people's personal lives, and I'm glad we don't.

I have never in my life heard someone revere Fischer as one of the smartest players who ever lived. It seems like you're making an issue where there isn't one. His name comes up in relation to chess and the Cold War. That is it.

This thread reminds me of an episode of the show "House". You're American so I'm sure you've at least heard of it, but for those who haven't: It's about an a-hole doctor, Gregory House (Hugh Laurie), and he treats his staff and patients like absolute garbage. He assumes all of his patients are liars and morons (many of them are), he's insubordinate, he steals, he's a drug addict. But on one episode, it goes into detail on why he became a doctor. And he tells this story:

"When I was 14 my father was stationed in Japan. I went rock climbing with this kid from school. He fell, got injured and I had to bring him to the hospital. We came in through the wrong entrance and passed this guy in the hall. It was a janitor. My friend came down with an infection and the doctors didn't know what to do. So they brought in the janitor. He was a doctor. And a Buraku. One of Japan's untouchables. His ancestors had been slaughterers, grave diggers. And this guy, he knew that he wasn't accepted by the staff, he didn't even try. He didn't dress well. He didn't pretend to be one of them. The people that ran that place, they didn't think that he had anything they wanted. Except when they needed him. Because he was right. Which meant that nothing else mattered. And they had to listen to him."

And so House was an a-hole, but it didn't matter. Because he was brilliant in the medical field. And he could say whatever he wanted, treat people however he wanted, but they still had to listen to him because he saved lives. I think Fischer benefited from this. He was a crazy and hateful man with many issues, but you're on a chess site, and his name only comes up when talking about chess. He was a genius on a chessboard. So he matters. 

He was the only American world champion.  Him beating Spassky was a minor staple of the Cold War.  "Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess" is the greatest selling chess book of all time.  And "Searching for Bobby Fischer" is one of the only truly popularized chess movies, as it did also win multiple awards if I am correct.

If you live in the United States, but don't play chess; possibly the only connection you could even have to chess, is through Bobby Fischer.  I think that's why he is still talked about so much.  He is the sole individual that has successfully intertwined chess with mainstream culture in the United States.  Or at least he has done it better than anyone else.

I like this actually, big time thumbs up.  Never thought about it like that, but it is nothing but truth.

This is clearly a very successful troll by the OP. Next we should start a thread to question why we still enjoy Micheal Jackson's music.

who the hell ever did or still does that eww

Well lets think!!!! Fischer out-thinked the world, won the cold war for the USA; made chess a giant game with big prize money. Did you maybe consider that he is correct about 9/11 and many other issues? I would be hard pressed to think I understand the world better than Fischer.

bobby fischer liked michael jackson he talks about him on youtube

He's correct about it? Please elaborate.

When he speaks on US foreign policy and concludes 'what goes around comes around' I tend to agree (pretty much in the same line with Noam Chomsky). 

But to applaud the act of killing thousands of innocent people?

Violence is often answered by violence, deservedly or not (huge can of worms we better don't open on a chess forum)?  One should try not to find amusement in it.

Fantastic way of putting it. What do you know, a long comment turns out to be a good comment! ;)