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| lblai@blackburn.edu (Louis Blair) wrote:
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> Nick wrote:
The first part of my sentence was snipped by Louis Blair:
"I shall say only that racism is far from absent today in the world
(including the United States)," --Nick
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> If people were really obliged to be as "useful" as possible at all times,
> probably nobody would participate in rec.games.chess at all.
I did *not* write an assertion that "people were really obliged to be
as 'useful' as possible at all times".
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> My belief is that it is reasonable for people to devote some time to
> activities that are not maximally "useful", and that, while doing something
> as non-useful as participating in a rec.games.chess discussion, the topic of
> Lasker's "white race" comments is completely acceptable.
I shall refer Louis Blair to what I have written in an earlier post to
him:
"I have no objection 'in principle (against) participating in a
RGCP discussion of whether or not Lasker was racist'." --Nick
(The words beginning with 'in principle...' were Louis Blair's.)
"I already have stated my respect for George Mirijanian, who created
this
thread, as a chess historian with a sincere interest in discussion."
--Nick
--Nick
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