Louis Blair wrote:
Terry wrote (Thu, 6 Apr 2006 18:39:36 +0100)
More f**king american chess politics.
I wish they would stop polluting this newsgroup.
Being an ignorant lot - they will carry on of course.

I am reading this thread in rec.games.chess.misc.

I suspect that Terry's reading this thread (at least
before he reset his filters) in rec.games.chess.misc,
*not* rec.games.chess.politics. I suspect that
Terry was expressing his objection to the 'ignorant
lot' of American writers who like to cross-post their
opinions about USCF politics to rec.games.chess.misc.

I, for one, would be glad to see more of what
goes on in other countries. Why is there not
more from other countries?

Several readers from outside the United States have
let me know that they prefer not to read, let alone to
write, in rec.games.chess.politics because it's a
cesspit of abuse and dishonesty. RGCP is a
de facto US political newsgroup, and it seems
dominated by many abusive and dishonest
American writers, who usually seem to be
jingoistic and sometimes seem to be racist.
Many of those American writers seem extremely
intolerant of any real or perceived criticism of the
United States and seem unwilling to listen seriously
to what a perceived foreign writer might have to say.

As far as I know, more than a few American writers
have quit reading and writing in RGCP because even
they perceive it as a cesspit of abuse and dishonesty.
Is there any reason that many more non-American writers
should feel encouraged to begin writing in RGCP? No.

--Nick