BLM, right. If you decide to make such POLITICAL statements in a chess game, a place where everyone plays the same rules and decides if wants to play or not, then how about we go ALL IN in that propaganda. Let me put it straight, why white pieces are the ones to start the game, that's racist AF. You said A - lichess goes into politics, now please continue and remove black and white pieces from the board, change the rules so that there is no black or white pieces, just ones in the colors of rainbow so it is actually impossible to distinguish them on the board. I will also greatly support the idea of removal distinction between the king, the queen and the pawns. King being the main object of the game greatly suggests man superiority, thus should be changed.
Waiting for your response, or more likely a ban just to confirm there is freedom of speech and freedom to say anything against widely believed "truth".
@Smeagol7 You should try being a black person in America for a month or so and then see if you still hold the same opinions. I used to live in Palo Alto, California which is right next to East Palo Alto, California. Palo Alto is a rich town and East Palo Alto is a ghetto. Everybody in Palo Alto knows that if there's a car that was stopped by the police at the border of the two towns it's almost a lead pipe cinch that the drivers are blacks. Indeed, people in Palo Alto call those police the "border patrol". And Palo Alto is about 65% Democrats.
If you're black in America, you're automatically regarded with fear by virtually every other ethnicity. Like any other ethnicity, the majority of blacks are fine people but their chances of being detained and/or frisked by cops are just enormously greater. Being a black in America means that even alleged Liberals are terrified of you. You have no real allies. Imagine being a decent black and coming to that realization.
And where did I state I am against any other race, or how do you assume my skin color or location. I just want to keep such things out of chess, it's not part of the problem, so it won't be the place to solve it. Look on dislikes, people are so biased now that even though I nowhere was being disrespectful they got mad at me. Crazy how manipulated ones can be by media. Riots the same thing, destroying public property - it's alright, because we have the right to do? It's all just main stream manipulation, people better realize that before forcing everyone to shut loud "black lives matter" and be ashamed of their skin color. There is law and it's execution to ban that police officer, fire him and let him struggle for abusing his rights. And I really don't understand why you bring problems of Palo Alto to lichess. Talk to press, post on reddit, but leave chess alone, every person is more then welcome to the game. How does blm relates to this platform? It's politics and you can't deny it. And if you want me to give examples of the so called "white privilege" I believe you would be surprised when confronted with the data.
0.21 % is the asian incarceration rate among the asian population in the US , white's incarceration rate is 0,45. More than double.
Black Lives Matter movement does not care about black lives. Do you think they would organise a protest if a black asian US citizen from south indian descent was killed by the police? No. And Black lives Matter don't care about african american lives either. They are capitalizing. I would have prefered Lichess to take a personal and informed stance in favor of african american rather than support Black Lives Matter. I agree, this is 100% politics.
