{"id":8477,"date":"2002-12-30T17:18:25","date_gmt":"2002-12-30T22:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2002\/12\/30\/this-is-parody-at-least-for-a-little-longer\/"},"modified":"2002-12-30T17:18:25","modified_gmt":"2002-12-30T22:18:25","slug":"this-is-parody-at-least-for-a-little-longer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2002\/12\/this-is-parody-at-least-for-a-little-longer\/","title":{"rendered":"This is parody, at least for a little longer"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Game Checkers is Racially
\nInsensitive<\/b><\/p>\n

In a bill co-sponsored by John McCain and Tom Daschle,
\nthe colors of red and black are to be banned from the game checkers. The change
\nis to be immediate. Yesterday, Tom Daschle had this to say: “Checkers has long
\nbeen a game deeply rooted in American lives and history. This change is long
\noverdue. No longer will we see the stereotypical red representing Native
\nAmericans and black representing African Americans. Effective immediately all
\ngame boards and chips are to be 2 shades of gray. Anyone found with a checkers
\ngame sporting red and black will be subject to a stiff penalty of a minimum of 7
\nyears in jail. This is a hate crime!”
[From the
\n“Listen don’t Speak” blog<\/a>] <\/font><\/p>\n

This bill would be a start, but it doesn’t go far enough. Checkers also
\nenforces rude behaviors and monarchism by making people jump over others to
\neliminate them and using such phrases as “King me.” Shouldn’t we just go around
\nthe other checkers politely without eliminating them. And isn’t “King Me” sexist
\nwhy not “Queen Me.” And the whole double checker fascism where the elite are
\nable to move as they will and the single checker proletariat can only move
\nforward, where is the equality here? Why does Red go first, who assigned these
\naffirmative actions to checkers? This game has a checkered past, time to
\neliminate it. President Nixon saved his political career by a dog named Checkers<\/a>, so there must be something profoundly wrong with
\nthis game. In our next article we will explain why Monopoly is capitalistic
\npropaganda and the game Candyland predisposes kids to obesity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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