Yes, you read that correctly, people are now saying that chess is racist because the white pieces move first!

How on earth does a satirist compete against reality when people are this far gone?


Australia's taxpayer funded public broadcaster ABC is facing ridicule after announcing it would host a debate asking if chess is racist because the white team traditionally gets to go first under the rules of the game.


A former member of the Australian Chess Federation discovered that the debate was set to take place when he was asked by a radio producer to take part.

“The ABC have taken the view that chess is RACIST given that white always goes first!” tweeted John Adams, adding, “Trust the taxpayer funded national broadcaster to apply ideological Marxist frameworks to anything and everything in Australia!”

Furious Australians took to Twitter to express outrage that ABC was wasting money and time on such an irrelevant question.

“People want the national broadcaster to focus on bigger issues,” said one. “People are struggling with the economy, with their health, with the lockdown. They don't want their money wasted on bullshit.”

However, Australian chess expert Kevin Bonham said he would be taking part in the debate, which is set to happen today.


It turns out that the white team going first has absolutely nothing to do with “racism” and 5 minutes of cursory research would have confirmed this fact.

The pieces were dyed either white or black because they were the most available colors at the time when the game was invented in northwest India.

The rule that white moves first was part of an effort to standardize chess for international competition purposes in the 19th century and has literally nothing to do with race.

But we live in 2020, and everything is potentially racist if there's power or social media clout to be gained.


Note: I looked up "Is chess racist" on YouTube and found video's on the subject dating back 10-years!

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Never again!

Australia! Arkansas with BEACHES! No offense to Arkansas. Let us Exam their slur protocol:

https://www.rsdb.org/race/australiansYes these are good collectivist useful idiots.


Carry on Comrades!

Maybe Chess isn't Racist - but MUSIC IS!

Chess? Museums? Libraries? ... and what about Music?

From MOC to MOC (tales of a queer Lebanese composer):


(here)
(no need to read all that - though it's whiny schizophasia is, indeed, exemplary - just see the paragraph-captions)

Remembah (cit.):

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:Remembah (cit.):

WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC ISN'T ABOUT CULTURE.
IT'S ABOUT WHITENESS!

And don't forget about the supremacy of white keys on the keyboard, while black keys play the role of their sharp or flat sidekicks.

All keyboards and people who play them are racists!

Take Ray Charles. He had to be blind not to see the glaring white supremacy going on under his fingertips. Or, perhaps, getting rich off of that inequity made him blind to the obvious unfairness and systemic racism in the world of pianos.

RACIST!!!

This is Joe Biden's chessboard. This is also your freedom of speech if Joe Biden becomes president.

Genosse Dummkopf wrote:

WESTERN CLASSICAL MUSIC ISN'T ABOUT CULTURE.

IT'S ABOUT WHITENESS!

from the article:

Western classical music is not about culture. It's about whiteness. It's a combination of European traditions which serve the specious belief that whiteness has a culture—one that is superior to all others. Its main purpose is to be a cultural anchor for the myth of white supremacy. In that regard, people of color can never truly be pioneers of Western classical music. The best we can be are exotic guests: entertainment for the white audiences and an example of how Western classical music is more elite than the cultures of people of color.

"Culture" and "whiteness" are collectivist concepts. Collectivists see everything through the lens of collectivism. It destroys the very concept of civilization from the mind. Classical music is a specific genre and was never the only music produced in Europe. No one who is not a thorough-going rabid racist would ever say that "whiteness has a culture."

The left is living in a lie. It's very important to not live in the lie.

Is a "White Russian" racist? It is Russian after all...

I am assuming that we will never again have to listen to "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas," which combines the privileging of whiteness with the exaltation of this "Christ," the very mention of whom is offensive to non-Christians. Korrekt?

Margaret wrote:... from the article: <quote> ...

Yet another <quote> from there (minus context):

MoC (Musician of Color) wrote:I personally find that <basically-whatever-whitey-does> to be a way of implicitly making people of color feel unsafe and unwelcome.

yeah...

And now think of the feelings of all them Incunabula Illuminators of Color, Old Prussian Lingualists of Color, Infinitely Differentiable Riemannian Manifoldists of Color, and so on... (Transgalactic Rocket Scientists of Color not least!).



APPENDIX.

Red Square said = "This is Joe Biden's chessboard. This is also your freedom of speech if Joe Biden becomes president.

"

Excellent Dear Square Leader, praise the Golden One!!!!



Is Comrade Joe Biden tanning???

Is he the Knight of Gold???

Or perhaps the Knight of Asses?

Goodnight,

Ghost of RR

Margaret!

Don't be silly! We ALL know that Joe Biden NEEDS a tan!
Then he will not be living a lie.

Poor Dear Leader Biden... but we will teach him the way of The Party™ yet.

Just a few more Vodka's and a few more Indiscriminate Lean Overs™! (Wink, Wink)

Then he can be our bitch Our Special Leader of The Party.

Here comes November Comrades! Ramp it up! Introduce nefarious diseases and tell all useful idiots to take to the streets in protest!!!I have premonition Comrades that The People™ will rise up on July 4th and make the world of Next Tuesday come quicker.

Prepare for The Revolushion!!!