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Once again I’m not equating anything I experienced to experiences had by minorities.

By claiming to have been a victim of systemic racism, this is exactly what you are doing. You don't get to say that you were a victim of systemic racism, because systemic racism against white people is literally im-fucking-possible because they control (and created) the system.

We were so close. Have a nice day, clown.

I'm not even disagreeing that it's discriminatory, but institutional/systemic racism is by definition at a high level. It affects individuals but the scope is much higher level. So it cannot be evidence of said racism against whites. That's why people get argumentative about this. It's hard for the white race to be simultaneously oppressed and enjoying the majority of global power, right?

Going back to the imprisonment for weed example, that's the kind of thing that could have real generational impact. You having to job search for an extra few weeks or months probably didn't affect your grandchildren, right? The statistics for black men in prison for non violent crimes is shocking in the states.

How is that not systematic racism?

The only reason Affirmative action is a thing is because whites are already overrepresented in the work force. If we're talking about a race, how can this policy be institutional racism when the race that you claim it affects negatively is actually still overrepresented at all levels of power??

Sucks for you, but you clearly got over it with ease. You weren't imprisoned for an 8th of weed a cop stashed in your car at a traffic stop.

Keep acting like your minor inconvenience is evidence of systemic white oppression tho.

Fucking clowns on this site I swear.

Why would that be my suggestion. My suggestion is you lot need to learn how to fucking read statistics lol. I don't give a fuck about chess, but I can tell you with 100% certainty that women are not worse at chess because they are women. The only thing the chess numbers prove is that men play chess at a professional/competitive level at much higher rates than women.

I literally don't know what happened because you haven't told us. All you said is that you heard about it.

Affirmative action is not systemic racism. Are you seriously making that claim? If so then you're obviously arguing in bad faith already.

Said with zero self reflection. <3

I'll make sure to specify in all of my future comments that are not addressed to you that they are not addressed to you. Will that help you to understand how anonymous social media works?

What exactly is your point? Where and when were white people denied jobs because they were white? You say you experienced it, but you also just say that someone told you about it. I'm pretty skeptical that you experienced systemic racism towards whites lol

Whoa, watch out with that logical thinking around here. As has been demonstrated by votes in a comment chain of mine further up the thread, the number of women at the top of the chess scene is totally indicative of womens' intrinsic ability to play chess. It has nothing to do with the amount of women who play chess vs the amount of men who play chess! /s

But yeah, it's simple shit. If men outnumber women 100:1 in the competitive chess scene then obviously we expect women to be extremely under represented at the top. But misogynists gonna misogyny.

I don't have to assume, they make it known how fucking dumb they are on a regular basis (aka, every time there's a school shooting)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5993415/ - even national institute of health knows about this one

https://abcnews.go.com/US/breaking-nra-backed-theory-good-guy-gun-stops/story?id=53360480

"That idea of armed guards, or armed teachers, as a solution to gun violence often seems to come up in the wake of mass shootings, echoing National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre's long-touted notion that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.”

LaPierre famously made those remark after the Sandy Hook school shooting in 2012 that killed 20 children and six school staff, and reiterated it in February after the shooting at a Parkland, Florida, high school that left 17 dead"

Don't trip over your big ol' clown shoes there, friend.

I weep for your (in)ability to interpret statistics.

I can't help you to understand the difference between cultural statistics and physiological potential I guess lol

Yeah you're right, the conservative 2a folks and NRA talking points never went on about arming teachers to stop school shootings and never claimed that armed good guys with guns were the key to solving random mass shootings. /s

I made a bad joke about a dog, I'm not sure why the fuck you are talking about constitutional rights and background checks. Lmao speaking of straw man arguments you've got a whole fucking script laid out and it isn't even relevant to the original shitty comment I made.

You seem to be desperate to be a victim of "prejudice."

What you have just said is that there is a cultural difference and I agree with that. Dont confuse that with a difference based on sex, or physiology, in other words.

Obviously, men and women on a 1:1 basis have equal potential to excel at chess, based on their sex, right?

It's a fact that for an athletic man and an athletic woman of equal weight, the man will be stronger.

Right. It's not a fact that the man will be a more skilled or successful fighter (or insert any sports position here) than the woman based on strength alone, so why should we assume that it is?

There are tons of ways to makes sports more inclusive. The issue has never been "we're all out of ideas," but rather "we've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas." Also "tRaDiTiOn"

So is your argument that women are inherently inferior at chess or...?

The only concession I can think of is things like crossfit games or Olympic weight lifting, where raw strength is the one and only point, or so central to the point that it'd be pointless to have men and women competing against one another. But things that require strategy or finesse like most sports, and definitely martial arts, women could absolutely be top contenders.

As humans we have hunted mammoths together, gone to the moon together, created computers together, etc. I think we can handle throwing and catching the balls together too.

TLDR there are many more aspects to most sports than raw physical strength, which is the only physiological "advantage" men have over women.

That's why we need to be giving guns to dogs, so they can also protect themselves from the ex-cops. 2a folk trying to arm everything all the time (teachers, good guys, etc) like it's going to cure death

Do you really have to ask...? It's so obviously a bigoted decision, if real.