Accusation against Alejandro Ramirez

[Paul Habershon]

On the original topic of this thread US Chess President Faces Calls For Resignation After Social Media Comments

USCF President Randy Bauer (German for pawn). That's priceless. Cometh the hour cometh the man.

[Matt Bridgeman]

It’s good to see the big guns now turned on Brand, with the full might of The Hydrant Program and the Met now going for it. Presumably there’s more allegations. https://metro.co.uk/2023/09/21/russell- ... -19533579/

[Kevin Thurlow]

"It’s good to see the big guns now turned on Brand, with the full might of The Hydrant Program and the Met now going for it."

Unfortunate choice of words with an unnamed Met officer remanded in custody today for allegedly shooting someone dead for no reason.

[Matt Bridgeman]

"It’s good to see the big guns now turned on Brand, with the full might of The Hydrant Program and the Met now going for it."

Unfortunate choice of words with an unnamed Met officer remanded in custody today for allegedly shooting someone dead for no reason.

Probably more the reason they’ll want to do this high profile job right. Obviously the shooting was bad. The circumstances of it being a car involved in a firearms incident the day before must have been a factor. It might just about fly for the police in America but the officer’s going to need a very compelling defence here not to go to jail.

[Matt Bridgeman]

On the original topic of this thread US Chess President Faces Calls For Resignation After Social Media Comments

It looks like Jennifer Shahade received the ever popular cease and desist letter from US Chess, and just stated on Twitter;

‘US Chess took issue with an uplifting farewell email I sent to the girls club on my last day of work, claiming it violated policy— but they got the date wrong so it didn't.

This demand letter was sent within 24 hours of the US Chess president’s very public attacks.

This bullying has nothing to do with the US Chess mission.

I remain committed to bringing more girls and women and gender minorities into chess and thank everyone for their support!

I'd love to see folks recommend accountability + a retraction of this request from US Chess leadership.

Thank you so much for your support!! Wowed by the outpouring.‘

[LawrenceCooper]

https://saintlouischessclub.org/sites/d ... 231002.pdf

[Matt Bridgeman]

And Randy says sorry too. Not sure if he’s sorry about the cease and desist letter, as that apparently isn’t retracted. https://twitter.com/RandyBauer

https://twitter.com/SChevannes/status/1 ... 9158415620

[Paul McKeown]

-- Edit. after appropriate moderation, no need for the post.

[Kevin Thurlow]

"That's a fairly offensive ethnonym."

Is it applicable though? I assume Bauer is of German descent, and "greaseball" normally refers to Italian descent. After I read what Bauer is now apologising for (eventually), I didn't get as far as nine letters to describe him...

[IM Jack Rudd]

I think I'll go with "offensive ethnonyms are still bad practice, even if the person being referred to isn't from the ethnicity in question", and have removed it from Matt's post.

[NickFaulks]

I think I'll go with "offensive ethnonyms are still bad practice, even if the person being referred to isn't from the ethnicity in question"

I never even knew it was an "ethnonym", thought it just meant a slimy liar. You have to be so careful nowadays.

[Matt Bridgeman]

He who shall not be named has canned his Twitter/X account, so who knows if that is something or nothing?!

[Joey Stewart]

I think I'll go with "offensive ethnonyms are still bad practice, even if the person being referred to isn't from the ethnicity in question"

I never even knew it was an "ethnonym", thought it just meant a slimy liar. You have to be so careful nowadays.

I don't even know what this word is, never seen or heard it used in my entire life until today. It feels like there are a lot of obscure terminologies that get made up so that people can use them to start fights on the internet under the guise of being correct and open minded - the "pedants united" should have been careful what they wished for because now they have it...

[Paul McKeown]

I think I'll go with "offensive ethnonyms are still bad practice, even if the person being referred to isn't from the ethnicity in question"

I never even knew it was an "ethnonym", thought it just meant a slimy liar. You have to be so careful nowadays.

I don't even know what this word is, never seen or heard it used in my entire life until today. It feels like there are a lot of obscure terminologies that get made up so that people can use them to start fights on the internet under the guise of being correct and open minded - the "pedants united" should have been careful what they wished for because now they have it...

No one is picking a fight with anyone. Ethnonym is a perfectly normal word, meaning a name for a people. An ethnonym does not have to be pejorative, e.g. "English" is a normal and inoffensive name for the people of England. However, we all know that there are words for people based on their origins, which one should not use unless one wants to cause great offense. I take it you aren't the sort of person who would walk into a restaurant, order a pilau, refuse to pay and call the maitre d' the well-known offensive term for people from Pakistan? So I don't really know what your issue is here. What is surprising is finding an adult who needs it explained to them.

[Matt Bridgeman]

I never even knew it was an "ethnonym", thought it just meant a slimy liar. You have to be so careful nowadays.

I don't even know what this word is, never seen or heard it used in my entire life until today. It feels like there are a lot of obscure terminologies that get made up so that people can use them to start fights on the internet under the guise of being correct and open minded - the "pedants united" should have been careful what they wished for because now they have it...

No one is picking a fight with anyone. Ethnonym is a perfectly normal word, meaning a name for a people. An ethnonym does not have to be pejorative, e.g. "English" is a normal and inoffensive name for the people of England. However, we all know that there are words for people based on their origins, which one should not use unless one wants to cause great offense. I take it you aren't the sort of person who would walk into a restaurant, order a pilau, refuse to pay and call the maitre d' the well-known offensive term for people from Pakistan? So I don't really know what your issue is here. What is surprising is finding an adult who needs it explained to them.

That seems a bit of an extreme association. One word is obviously a highly offensive, racist slur. I think mine has more or less fallen out of use, probably last seen in 1960’s gangster movies. Meant for semi-comic offense in relation to this character, who probably has roughly the same moral compass as a character from Succession.