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Thread #107828   Message #2240549
Posted By: WFDU - Ron Olesko
20-Jan-08 - 09:49 AM
Thread Name: Obit: Bobby Fischer (Chessmaster)[Jan 2008]
Subject: RE: Obit: Bobby Fischer (Chessmaster)
"You may be the last best hope of freedom, but you suffer from a 'one size fits all' few of conformity."

That's not the case. His lifestyle and choice were his own, just as they are for all of us. When that life has a negative effect on others, that is where critism is deserved. If you feel that non-conformity is offering excuses for anti-semitic rantings, so be it. Some of you seem to overlook his "shortcomings" and remember him as a genius, but when I raise my opinion - some of you seem to take exception to that. Isn't that looking for a "one size fits all" conformity?   When someone points out that the idol has feet of clay, it is okay to shoot the messenger? Sounds like a double standard.

No, Bobby Fischer did not open up a concention camp. Hatred does not need to get to that level before someone says "no".

The point I was trying to make is that there is a lot of hypocrisy going on with Bobby Fischer. If some of the other celebrities mentioned said and did the things the Fischer publicly did, they would not be looked at so fondly.