The world’s top chess federation has ruled that transgender women cannot compete in its official events for females until an assessment of gender change is made by its officials.

  • DragonTypeWyvern@literature.cafe
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    1 year ago

    I’ve stopped being surprised by chess dorks after it came out that America’s Champion, Bobby Fischer, our Hope Against The Commie Gameplaying Menace was literally a neo-Nazi and not subtle about it.

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      1 year ago

      America supporting fascists, because they are anti-communist, has looooong history.

          • BNE@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            1 year ago

            It might have evolved, but Mussolini’s fascists initially made their money being hired thugs for the wealthy and industrialists who wanted to directly attack and scupper organising workers.

            Similar in Nazi Germany with the Brownshirts iirc.

            I guess under Neoliberalism you can kind of just skip the street gangs and use cops to attack unionists, so it’s a different set of material conditions these days but the patterns are there.