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Old March 29th 08, 01:39 PM posted to rec.games.chess.misc,rec.games.chess.computer,soc.culture.jewish
Guy Macon
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Default Anti-Semitism on FICS (Free Internet Chess Server)




Help bot wrote:
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David Richerby wrote:

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You wish to force that FICS user to pick another name because you
are offended over a very common gaming term that was clearly used
to mean " Kills you"

Someone is really "reaching" here.

First of all, the brackets to *insert* a missing word from out of
the blue. Note also the fact that /even with the inserted word/,
the sentence is not even grammatically correct.


You are obviously not familiar with, say `All your base are belong
to us' or lolcats (`I can haz cheezburger' etc.). Grammatical
English isn't even on the radar of these internet memes.


The claim was that it **clearly** meant
"I kill you", which is ridiculous unless it is
both clear and obvious that this was the
intended meaning. It certainly is not clear
to me,


"clearly" is correct. It means "matches all
available evidence."

"Obvious" is subjective.

Your attempt to redefine "cear" to mean
"clear and obvious" is invalid. They are
not the same thing.

and in fact, I was convinced at one
point that "kill zie Jew" (there are a LOT of
Hollywood movies which obsess over this
WWII stuff and which have Nazi's speaking
English, but with a strong German accent).

Now I see that there are kiddies who
deliberately muck up the English language
even more than it already is by nature, but
this is no more convincing than zie other
guess


You have seen multiple examples from gaming sites
(FICS is a gaming site) of "kilsz joo" meaning
"kill you." A challenge you to find a single
example of "kils z joo" being used to mean "kills
the jew." I won't even limit you to gaming sites.
Try to find it on a Nazi or KKK site. Try and find
any usage of "Kill zie Jew" while you are at it.

I detest racism as much as the next guy. That's
why I oppose painting gamers using gamer-speak in
the normal and accepted gamer-speak way on a gaming
site as racists, based on a theoretical usage that
even the neonazis don't actually use.


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