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@MarkusNemetz Well they won't, you see because its "not politics" but rather an issue of "human rights" (even though most political issues are actually focused on human rights). So therefore this topic, which has created an intense amount of political strife and hatred is apparently an exception to the rule, but all other political issues which ostensibly do the exact same, aren't. Do you think they will ever update this thread of stop the discussion? I seriously doubt it. I am skeptical any of them are even reading the latest developments, this thread has completely devolved.

Let's face it this isn't about keeping politics out of chess. Lichess devs simply care more about having certain public stances than they do about keeping politics out of chess. And it sounds like they are willing to make that arbitrary exception for any other issue
@Chanceyone BLM does care about everyone, it is a movement with actual member and goal - to achieve equality and hold a stand against the systematic racism that exists (mainly against African American). Does it have people who use the term BLM to misuse their rights? Yes. Every major movement and has that. Although, I don't have the ratio of people who are actually supporting BLM and misusing the movement, I find it extremely wrong for you to call the whole movement - a hate movement.
@TheSunnyBoy
Many have tried, but there is still nobody serious that have provided proof of SYSTEMIC or INSTITUTIONALIZED racism in the USA.

There are a few dozen unarmed people a year that are killed by police.

Without searching, I doubt you would be able to tell me the name of a single one of them who was not African American.
That is strange because unarmed African Americans constitute around 20-25 % of unarmed fatalities by police in any given year.

That percentage is even less than the African American crime rate would suggest that it would be.
This means that the media completely DOES NOT care unless the victim is black and the officer(s) is white.

There will be bad cases every year, because it is impossible that the police, and all of its officers are 100% perfect.

Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootings by David J. Johnson, Trevor Tress, Nicole Burkel, Carley Taylor, and Joseph Cesario, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2019
"We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers". “Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race. This suggests that increasing diversity among officers by itself is unlikely to reduce racial disparity in police shootings.”

A 2015 Justice Department analysis of the Philadelphia Police Department found that white police officers were less likely than black or Hispanic officers to shoot unarmed black suspects. Research by Harvard economist Roland G. Fryer Jr. also found no evidence of racial discrimination in shootings. Any evidence to the contrary fails to take into account crime rates and civilian behavior before and during interactions with police.
This is kind of sad from a website which should be dedicated to... playing chess?

And it is just another uneducated comment that merely repeats what the main-stream media shouts.

You can't say you are all for equality when you learn and burn down cities for every single black man that dies at the hands of a white officer and casually ignore the hundreds of white men who are killed at the hand of the police, or the hundreds of black men who are killed at the hands of NON-WHITE OFFICERS.

I don't know if you are just being ignorant or are trying to push an agenda, but don't be surprised when you see a rise in REAL RACIST MOVEMENTS when white people get fed up with this bullshit.
Do you even understand that this does not help the Blacks in Africa . I see this is too much hypocritical , in fact its a Joke . It will not change anything because the whole bullshit is staged . Every fuckin Day African Children and Babys are dying , but hey who cares ... George Floyd died ... Yeah that is surely more important . The Issue is that we have to accept them no matter what . That is why i said all lives matter ! Understood ?

It is not a fukin Joke .

So please dont take it like that .

Love can change all , but well Justice wont come through the Death of George , it comes with recognizing that we are all brothers , only different in form and color .

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