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Author Re: Was Emanuel Lasker a racist?
JG

2004-09-28, 6:49 am

One thing kids could be learning from chess is to respect others
regardless of their beliefs or national origins. It amazes me to find
otherwise intelligent people who are in some ways quite bigotted.
Perhaps it short circuits the intellectual process to have the PC,
"Its true because we say so". Maybe the discussions have to be
had every time there is opportunity for discussion.




"NoMoreChess" <nomorechess@wmconnect.comkillspam> wrote in message
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> Actually, Australia was originally "settled" by the aborigines, and

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> America, by the indians. The white man came along later, stealing their

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> by use of brute force. Er, nevermind. This doesn't fit-in smoothly with

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> theme -- sorry. You were saying?
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> and Africa.
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> Where man first evolved from a small rat-like creature. :-)
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> Especially Germany, which "led the way" in taking over Lasker's assets,

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> But Japan led-the-way in Go.
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> other race (not counting albinos, which are not technically a race).
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> All our over-grazing and strip-mining turned the formerly lush Sahara

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> vast, barren desert.... :-)
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> Are you psychic or something? He could have caught some disease, and

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> He could have been murdered, or had an accident.
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> Actually, the rest of the world already hated us, even before we deposed
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> 2001 to hope for a Seven Days in May scenario, to say he wanted the US to

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> "wiped out." He noted what "we" had done to the American Indian, and our
> longterm support of Zionism and Apartheid, among other things.
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> Man, I guess the pundits finally got tired of bashing Alekhine, and

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> for once to have a go at Lasker, for a change of pace. Finding precious
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> trick, noting that he was, after all, from Germany, and from a *time* in

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> others had expressed racist views. Nice piece of "work."
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