things that make us look stupid. Chess is racist now

[private_ryan]

It doesn't look like an Onion article either...

http://www.southerndigest.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2004/03/02/4044c44d1aa8a
snip.
"By saying that white automatically is offensive, it states that white is better than black," Ware said.

His idea is to remove color superiority in chess by focusing the game on variables. He calls his new way of chess "Algebra Chess" paralleling it to The Algebra Project by Robert Moses.

Moses and Ware came up with the basic concepts of The Algebra Project in 1969. Also around this time, Ware began formulating the plan of attacking racism in chess.

Moses implemented The Algebra Project in the 1980s as he taught the students in his daughter’s eighth grade algebra class. After his success, he began a nationwide plan to provide all students with a conceptual understanding of mathematics and know it as a language of practicality, not abstraction.

[everythingsxen]

1. *sigh*

If it makes me a non-racist... I always play Black. It id better to see your opponents attack and respond to it, IMO.

[AlienGirl]

2. Black chesspieces look cooler anyway

[papau]

3. In checkers it coal before fire - black was first, then red. - so red men

were being dumped on?

[EstimatedProphet]

4. Go must be racist too

but what about checkers?
This is exactly the sort of thing that the Freepers point to and laugh. This is far from being representative of liberalism, but if the only thing people hear about from their continual brainwashing from RushCo, how could they think that liberals are anything other than fringe goofballs?

[everythingsxen]

6. I second that...

Things like this drive me bat-shit crazy.

[KG]

5. who is 'us'?

[private_ryan]

7. look

at the address bar on the Internet Explor, Mozilla, Netscape or whatever browser you're using.

[Vittorio]

8. Oh Christ. It seems like we can't do anything now...

without racism being involved.

CHESS IS NOT RACIST!!! GEEZ!

[Rabrrrrrr]

9. I should think that claiming that someone is offensive

would make them INFERIOR since only poopybutts attack other people, and God is always on the side of the defender.

So black people are better, because they don't attack first!

[RandomUser]

10. And then there's Chinese Chess!

Sometimes, a game is just a game.

[private_ryan]

11. not really

racism and sexism are everywhere, you just haven't to look deep enough. </end of talking points>

[Khephra]

12. What about bowling?

A black ball knocking down 10 white pins?

:evilgrin:

[scucci]

13. I don't know how to play chess

Too much info. :)