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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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