Comments on: Head injury, and disabled and black perspectives on Serena Williams http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/09/14/head_injury_and_disabled_and_black_perspectives_on_serena_williams Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective Thu, 09 Feb 2012 17:32:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Thersites http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/09/14/head_injury_and_disabled_and_black_perspectives_on_serena_williams#comment-14797 Thersites Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:30:52 +0000 http://www.blogistan.co.uk/blog/mt.php/2009/09/14/head_injury_and_disabled_and_black_perspectives_on_serena_williams#comment-14797 "Having no parameters on behavior would be like trying to play chess with your opponent jumping up and down and cursing after a move. " Has she never heard of Bobby Fischer or Viktor Korchnoi? In fact, in chess, almost anything short of physical assault is allowed. The first European book on chess recommended sitting your opponent facing the setting sun if you played in the evening. Cursing and sneering at your opponents is almost obligatory in poker. The fact that she lost is pretty good evidence that Williams was not using psychological ploys but unable to control herself. "[this] wouldn't bug me so much if Muslims who voice fears of discrimination weren’t told things like “don’t blow up trains then”." ...except that people who blow up trains say they do so because they are muslims and justify their hobby by quoting the quran. “Having no parameters on behavior would be like trying to play chess with your opponent jumping up and down and cursing after a move. ” Has she never heard of Bobby Fischer or Viktor Korchnoi? In fact, in chess, almost anything short of physical assault is allowed. The first European book on chess recommended sitting your opponent facing the setting sun if you played in the evening. Cursing and sneering at your opponents is almost obligatory in poker. The fact that she lost is pretty good evidence that Williams was not using psychological ploys but unable to control herself.

“[this] wouldn’t bug me so much if Muslims who voice fears of discrimination weren’t told things like “don’t blow up trains then”.” …except that people who blow up trains say they do so because they are muslims and justify their hobby by quoting the quran.

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