More idiocy.... chess is racist?

[bright.ton42]

https://www.2gb.com/completely-ridiculous-abc-slammed-for-suggesting-chess-is-racist/

https://www.news.com.au/sport/more-sports/abc-is-chess-racist-debate-garry-kasparov-slams-broadcaste...

It seems there are obections now to the fact that in Chess the first move is always made by the white.

Garry Kasparov, the Russian who was the game’s number one player for the best part of three decades, couldn’t believe his eyes when he saw news.com.au’s coverage of the debate, which aired on Wednesday.

It came after ABC host James Valentine saw a post on Twitter noting white moved first in the popular board game and thought it was worthy of further discussion.

Fair to say Kasparov didn’t. “If you are worried that the game of chess is racist, please take up Go, where black moves first, instead of looking foolish by wasting taxpayer money at a state broadcaster to ‘investigate’ it!” the 57-year-old tweeted.

I would have liked to get a link on the ABC page about it but not surprisingly can't find any.

[lionrose.7]

The old cow boy movies the badies always had the black hat and the goodies the white hat LOL

[davewil1964]

That would be because the baddies were always black.

Nothing to do with skin colour, everything to do with magic.

That's certainly where the trope originated.

[not_for_sale2025]

Well this must be confusing for some!

[davidc4430]

ok, now i'm confused!

Sammy Davis jr. Old Black Magic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIYkMMAtO4U

[davewil1964]

Only those who don't understand the difference between white and black magic.

A somewhat contemporay analogy is Harry Potter. ALL the baddies were white skinned. Most of the goodies were too. BUT the only black skinned people were goodies.

20 years ago, so the PC wasn't as prevalent, but the point is that a person's inside determines whether they are good or bad.

[4channel]

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@davidc4430 wrote:

while we are at it, star wars!

darth vader all in black is the bad guy

whilst young luke dressed in white is the good guy!

they must remake the entire star wars movies to right thing wrong!

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Interestingly Darth Vader is played by both a Caucasian English man and an African American man.

David Prowse  is a former body builder  and actor, a white English man. He is the guy in the mask and dressed in black. James Earl Jones needs no iintroduction. Most people know who he is. This elder statesman of film and stage is an African American and he provided the voice for Darth Vader. And with a voice like that, it would be very surprising if he never played Othello.

[not_for_sale2025]

Here ya go, the solution.

[myoclon1cjerk]

One look at the sources, channel 7, 2GB and News Corpse should have been sufficient to give you an inkling it was was going to be a beat up or as they like to declare, "fake news"

[joz*garage]