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Jul 10, 2020
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#43
theendgame3 wrote:
KetoOn1963 wrote:
david wrote:
@CRYYSIS called @RareSapphireKnight dumb rather than calling her opinion dumb - that's what makes it a personal attack (not that calling her opinion dumb is particularly helpful either).
Similarly, I warned @Damonevic-Smithlov about his "misleading and inaccurate opinions" re: Black Lives Matter and did not call him a liar: the problem was that he was minimising the importance and significance of the issue by making claims about the history of a radical group that was not relevant to the conversation.
And the problem with "treating everyone equal" and #AllLivesMatter is that's fine when everyone is in fact being treated equally, but when a group of people has historically and - more importantly, is still presently being treated horribly unequally, it's actually undermining any action aimed at reducing that inequality. It's actually the same sort of thinking that attacks women's titles and prizemoney in chess as discriminatory against men, instead of recognising it as an attempt to improve women's participation in a game that they have been historically discouraged from playing.
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Thanks,
David, moderator
David,
Let me first say that i pretty much agree with your post. What I do not agree with is the bending over backwards for the black cause. Besides overreacting to what is going on now. When as the last time chess.com interviewed black chess players, and their experiences with racism?
Suddenly businesses think they need to flood sites with black movies, black comedies, black history, black documentaries. You know how much this addresses racism? It doesn't. Its pandering, plain and simple. If you weren't worried about interviewing black chess players before about racism, then why do it now? All this fosters is reverse racism. Now we have to play the black national anthem at sporting events? Now kneeling is acceptable? And their is talk of a black bill of rights???
So why dont we play an Asian national anthem? After all we worked the Chinese to death building our railroads. Why not the Mexican national anthem? American Indian national anthem? We killed an awful lot of them taking their land.
Again...all this over reacting is reverse racism. If you didn't care enough before, then you dont care now. Its a bunch of hypocrisy.
Well said.
Meh. Mostly what I got out of it was that peacefully protesting police brutality (by simply kneeling) is reverse racism, but civil disobedience when conservatives show up to government offices in para-military gear because they're mad buffets are closed is righteous.
It's a double standard by people with a very narrow view of the world, and likely little self esteem and empathy.
By the way "it's racist against white people" is exactly what was argued when they wanted to e.g. let black kids go to school. Conservatives have always resisted change, which is useful when the change is too much, but sometimes they need to be quiet and let humanity take a few steps forward.
Jul 10, 2020
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#44
hdbb8 wrote:
I would have doubted your sincerity after you made a point of being a news junky that does your own research, yet haven't done a 5 minute Google search or been in any online communal space (probably a distinction to be made between 'communal space' where people of different views gather, and 'safe space') in the last few months such as Youtube, Yahoo, etc. You get such information just looking up football results now. And that's just the internet, even my grandmother knew George Floyd's criminal record the week that happened - contrary to sainthood for example. But i'll humour it.
I never said I was a news junky, and it's rather distasteful to bring up a murdered man's criminal record. At least in the US we have a criminal justice system. People aren't supposed to be murdered in the streets by policemen. We have courts and laws. Maybe you could make use of your yahoo and youtube skills to figure that one out.
Here's black lives matter.com literally in the "what we believe" section (link below). I see you demonized some founders, and that's fine, but go ahead and show me where it says they want to burn society to the ground.
https://blacklivesmatter.com/what-we-believe/
Jul 10, 2020
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#45
@hdbb8
That's true, I might do that tomorrow. Honestly it'd take a few hours at least and I'm not going to do that right now.
I do see some wealth redistribution stuff, so I disagree with that, and disrupting the nuclear family to live in "villages" where we care for each other... which is... very vague and strange, so I'm pretty sure I don't support that.
But I could do without the flamboyant demonizing, Floyd had a criminal record, and their co-founder is a Marxist. Leaving stuff like that out will help people take you more seriously.
I don't think you can dismiss the entire BLM movement just because there's a militant arm to it no more than you could 50 yrs ago with the Black Panthers. That's like saying the entire military sucks because a few Navy Seals are out of control. My Yahoo news feed says the T.V show "Boy Meets World" will be re-done this fall with a black family. Not sure if that's catering to racism or not.
Jul 10, 2020
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#47
RonaldJosephCote wrote:
I don't think you can dismiss the entire BLM movement just because there's a militant arm to it no more than you could 50 yrs ago with the Black Panthers. That's like saying the entire military sucks because a few Navy Seals are out of control. My Yahoo news feed says the T.V show "Boy Meets World" will be re-done this fall with a black family. Not sure if that's catering to racism or not.
Yeah, I wouldn't dismiss the whole thing, but it would prevent me from answering flatly with "yes" if asked whether I support BLM. I'd say something like I think institutional racism has existed, and still exists, and that it has disadvantaged black people in the United States, and that I support equal treatment of everyone.
Jul 10, 2020
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#48
The original post has been answered and Help and Support really is the place for this discussion. So locking.
Nooo
engine ghost player
Yikes, using an engine during games is so wrong. In the end those people are only cheating themselves.