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]

imagine the world in Rainbow Colours, would at least look like a happy place

[joztamps]

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@lionrose.7 wrote:

imagine the world in Rainbow Colours, would at least look like a happy place

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Unless you're an unrepentant Afrikaaner.

[the_great_she_elephant]

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@icyfroth wrote:
News is news, as the average elephant has it. It's served up in the media, so why wouldn't it be true?
How does the average elephant have a hope in distinguishing real news, as in unbiased report of how events actually unfolded?
She struggles, but makes up for it by throwing her weight around and swinging her trunk authoritativley.
She is the Matriarch, after all...

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The average elephant’s opinions

Are not reliant on the minions

Writing for some media mogul,

Whose motives may be less than noble.

In order to be independent,

She keeps her brain in the ascendent

By following the news, of course,

But wisely checking every source;

Crossreferencing to counteract

Insinuations masked as fact,

And thus ensuring that her views

Are not formed by slave founded news.

[icyfroth]

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:
News is news, as the average elephant has it. It's served up in the media, so why wouldn't it be true?
How does the average elephant have a hope in distinguishing real news, as in unbiased report of how events actually unfolded?
She struggles, but makes up for it by throwing her weight around and swinging her trunk authoritativley.
She is the Matriarch, after all...

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The average elephant’s opinions

Are not reliant on the minions

Writing for some media mogul,

Whose motives may be less than noble.

In order to be independent,

She keeps her brain in the ascendent

By following the news, of course,

But wisely checking every source;

Crossreferencing to counteract

Insinuations masked as fact,

And thus ensuring that her views

Are not formed by slave founded news.

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[icyfroth]

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@icyfroth wrote:

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@the_great_she_elephant wrote:

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@icyfroth wrote:
News is news, as the average elephant has it. It's served up in the media, so why wouldn't it be true?
How does the average elephant have a hope in distinguishing real news, as in unbiased report of how events actually unfolded?
She struggles, but makes up for it by throwing her weight around and swinging her trunk authoritativley.
She is the Matriarch, after all...

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The average elephant’s opinions

Are not reliant on the minions

Writing for some media mogul,

Whose motives may be less than noble.

In order to be independent,

She keeps her brain in the ascendent

By following the news, of course,

But wisely checking every source;

Crossreferencing to counteract

Insinuations masked as fact,

And thus ensuring that her views

Are not formed by slave founded news.

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The average elephant just eats grass and uproots trees, wallows in mud, and leave large amounts of dung.

[the_great_she_elephant]

Icyfroth wrot: The average elephant just eats grass and uproots trees, wallows in mud, and leave large amounts of dung.

And never forgets.

[rogespeed]

I think the game developed originally in India so I doubt that - I believe in India whiter shades of skin implies higher caste - they keep out of the sun , while lower caste people work in the sun hence darker skin .  As I would imagine a game played by the leisure upper caste people the natural inclination to proceed first given a choice of 2 colours would be the that of the lighter culturally more desirable colour.

If so not a race factor but a snobbish culture factor 

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[supermussolinibros]

slave founded news is actually the guardian - wake up

[the_great_she_elephant]

John Edward Taylor(11 September 1791- 6 January 1844) was an English business tycoon, editor, publisher and member of The Portico Library who was the founder of the The Manchester Guardian newspaper in 1821, which was renamed in 1959The Guardian

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Edward_Taylor

The Scott Trust Limited is the British company that owns Guardian Media Group and thus The Guardian and the Observer as well as various other media businesses in the UK. In 2008, it replaced the Scott Trust, which had owned the The Guardian since 1936.

The Trust was established (founded) in 1936 by John Scott, owner of the The Manchester Guardian (as it then was) and the Manchester Evening News, After the deaths in quick succession of his father C P Scott and brother Edward and consequent threat of Death Duties John Scott wished to prevent future death duties forcing the closure or sale of the newspapers, and to protect the liberal editorial line of The Guardian from interference by future proprietors. The first and only Chairman of the first Trust was John Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Trust_Limited

No mention of any slaves there as far as I can see.

[lurker172602]

Could we get a definitive description of "slave founded news" please, seeing as that seems to be this weeks buzz phrase