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An Australian taxpayer-funded broadcaster has tried to book a former chess player to discuss whether one of the oldest board games in the world is steeped in white supremacy. This is utter madness.
In the words of
Anchorman's Ron Burgundy: "That escalated quickly". Less than two weeks ago, I wrote a
tongue-in-cheek article listing twelve things that should be next on the list for the cancel culture commissars to tear down. Such as the pyramids, the White House, William Shakespeare...
As a throw-away line, a joke and in the interest of bumping up the number of things on the list, I suggested the game of chess should be cancelled. I, and I cannot stress this enough, wrote for a laugh, that chess "is clearly an allegory for racial violence, and the fact the whites always get to move first is an obvious indication of white supremacy."
However, I apparently underestimated my powers, because yesterday, nine days after that article was published, it was revealed that ABC, Australia's national broadcaster, was preparing for a discussion on this very topic.
Yes: a taxpayer funded organization was actively trying to book guests and devote airtime to discuss whether or not a board game was racist.
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