Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:46:34 04/01/03
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On April 01, 2003 at 13:10:34, Dann Corbit wrote: >Perhaps your response is the ultimate intended result of the insults. >Minor chess programmers from the US did not receive these emails. >Persons who had a realistic chance to win did receive them. >What does that tell you? That the person sending them only knew of the people that regularly participate. I got 'em also. I don't mind if someone wants to discuss the war and give reasons why they think it is wrong. I think it is wrong in some ways myself, but the overall concept is that this is very likely a necessary bad thing to do. however, discussing the war is one thing, but sending an email with no content except for "hate" is another. The _only_ text in the email Bruce/I/Others received was exactly what Bruce gave (I posted the full email a week or two back myself, but without the jpeg photo). It is hard to justify the email as a "protest" because there were no words of protest included. Just "a dead american is a good american" sort of implication. At the very best spin you can put on it, it was tasteless. It was _not_ "thought provoking" as the sender later claimed. It was exactly what one might have expected in the 1940's, except replace "american" by "jew" and there you go.
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