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Oh no. Please. Not chess. Can’t we just leave this one alone?

nemo44x 5y ago
No. Everything must be examined critically through the lenses of social justice. Chess is a Eurocentric and thus colonial game only valued because of its expression of whiteness. Dominance of an opponent of another color reenforces normative racism and the white pieces going first internalizes white supremacy to Black, brown, and indigenous peoples. I won’t even go into the obvious sexism and misogyny of the emotional labor of the womxn piece moving the longest distances in all directions while being valued less than the male piece. We should expect and demand equity in all our so called “games” so that everyone wins.
- colordrops 5y ago
  Ugh, I'm so screwed up. Your comment would be taken as dead serious in some circles and as parody in others. Based on the HN demographic I'm guessing the latter but I'm not sure.
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  - nate_meurer 5y ago
    I hate to do this because the parent is good at letting their dry humor speak for itself. But yes, it's parody.
    - colordrops 5y ago
      What's the tell here? I've had people dead serious tell me that the US government is racist for making the lowest value coin brown and putting Lincoln on it.
      - kbelder 5y ago
        It's very good. I was looking for a tell, but couldn't find one. They even capitalized "Black" while leaving "brown" lowercase, as is Proper according to progressive style guides.
        Izkata 5y ago
        Also "womxn"
  - nemo44x 5y ago
    I will confirm - it is parody.
- dogorman 5y ago
  Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west along the silk road trade routes.
  - akho 5y ago
    That's a bit of a misconception. Modern chess is European. Shatranj was a much less dynamic and interesting game.
  - egman_ekki 5y ago
    Well, it seems it was culturally appropriated by Europeans.
  - tk75x 5y ago
    That part makes the comment even better, IMO. It paints the speaker as someone ignorant enough not only to go after the black/white convention in chess but also as not knowing the origins or details of the issue at hand(which is usually the case when people are virtue signalling).

No. Everything must be examined critically through the lenses of social justice. Chess is a Eurocentric and thus colonial game only valued because of its expression of whiteness. Dominance of an opponent of another color reenforces normative racism and the white pieces going first internalizes white supremacy to Black, brown, and indigenous peoples. I won’t even go into the obvious sexism and misogyny of the emotional labor of the womxn piece moving the longest distances in all directions while being valued less than the male piece. We should expect and demand equity in all our so called “games” so that everyone wins.

colordrops 5y ago
Ugh, I'm so screwed up. Your comment would be taken as dead serious in some circles and as parody in others. Based on the HN demographic I'm guessing the latter but I'm not sure.
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- nate_meurer 5y ago
  I hate to do this because the parent is good at letting their dry humor speak for itself. But yes, it's parody.
  - colordrops 5y ago
    What's the tell here? I've had people dead serious tell me that the US government is racist for making the lowest value coin brown and putting Lincoln on it.
    - kbelder 5y ago
      It's very good. I was looking for a tell, but couldn't find one. They even capitalized "Black" while leaving "brown" lowercase, as is Proper according to progressive style guides.
      - Izkata 5y ago
        Also "womxn"
- nemo44x 5y ago
  I will confirm - it is parody.
dogorman 5y ago
Obviously your comment is sarcastic, but this is worth correcting: Chess is a Eurocentric Chess came from Persia, or maybe India, and spread both east and west along the silk road trade routes.
- akho 5y ago
  That's a bit of a misconception. Modern chess is European. Shatranj was a much less dynamic and interesting game.
- egman_ekki 5y ago
  Well, it seems it was culturally appropriated by Europeans.
- tk75x 5y ago
  That part makes the comment even better, IMO. It paints the speaker as someone ignorant enough not only to go after the black/white convention in chess but also as not knowing the origins or details of the issue at hand(which is usually the case when people are virtue signalling).