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| tkingston@chittenden.com (Taylor Kingston) wrote in
message news:<dbe68208.0409220919.d878dbc@posting.google.com>...
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> The tendency of posters to take threads with very specific questions into
> all manner of irrelevant tangents, or to use them as pretexts for extended
> op-ed pieces unrelated to the original topic, or to pursue petty squabbles,
> is one of the most annoying aspects of this group.
It's well-known that rec.games.chess.politics has a pathological 'culture'.
1) George Mirijanian ('Miriling') created this thread.
2) Juergen replied closely to what George Mirijanian wrote.
3) Kevin Croxen replied closely to what Juergen wrote.
4) Nick replied closely to what Kevin Croxen wrote.
Then there was a sudden digression when Tim Hanke wrote another of his
political rants, which succeeded in provoking responses from Greg Kennedy
("NoMoreChess"), Larry Parr ("Parrthenon"), and other writers.
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> Of course, in so saying here I am somewhat guilty of the same sin,
> so I will close that subject.
De gustibus non est disputandum.
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> Anyway, Mr. Mirijanian's original question was interesting; it's one
> that has intrigued me since I first learned of it in Winter's book. ...
Taylor Kingston has the right to be 'intrigued' by any historical question,
and I respect Mr Kingston's continuing explorations into chess history.
I shall say only that racism is far from absent today in the world (including
the United States), and that it could be more useful to do something to oppose
racism today rather than becoming too preoccupied about whether Emanuel Lasker
was more or less racist than most other Europeans of his generation.
'Mit der Dummheit kampfen Gotter selbst vergebens.'
--Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller
--Nick
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