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I mean I probably shouldnt bother but here is some reading material on US colonialism in case you want to see what people actually mean by colonization (it’s not immigration)

https://readsettlers.org/text-index.html

do with it what you will. There is a text at the very end comparing Zionism and US Settlerism.

Well thanks for sharing I suppose. Its rare to see a definition of colonialism this dumb and a lie so brazen.

You can find an academic account on the 1947-48 war here https://www.jstor.org/stable/2537591 .

I dont know how the arabs in palestine are to be seen as colonizers given that the notion of “palestine” came around the turn of the century but frankly I’m not interested in such mental gymnastics.

Is it really so unbelievable that a call for freedom is a call to end Apartheid, and not impose a different kind of Apartheid?

That’s a disgusting reversal of the facts. For anyone interested in what really happened I can recommend decolonizepalestine.com Sources are linked everywhere so you can make your own judgment on where the Palestinian narrative makes sense and where it doesn’t.

Your view on Arab people is very racist. And your arguments don’t hold up considering that Israel and the west repeatedly torpedoed every democratic peoples movement, to the point where in the time leading up to the Al-Aqsa flood they only allowed cash transfers to Hamas pass the checkpoints. Freedom for Palestine is a call to end Apartheid and for a secular state.

in a country that is very carefully watching the freedom of opinion and repression of minorities

If you are talking about Germany then you have no idea what living in a majority-muslim neighbourhood has been like the past couple of weeks.

The replacement of Israel with a Muslim Palestinian state would mean the abolition of the Jewish state.

Its so fucked that this is the dichotomy presented. Like “oh you want the Apartheid oppressing Muslims to end? That means you want Apartheid where the Muslims are the oppressors!”.

The fact that people mean “No Apartheid” when they talk about freedom is just glossed over. As well as the Christians (both arab and settler) suffering under the laws codifying Jewish supremacy in Israel. Opposing Israel does not mean opposing Jews in general and wanting freedom for everyone in Palestine does not mean wanting freedom only for the Arab population much less only the Muslim Arab population.

Bro its like 9/11 bro, its like Pearl Harbor bro, please let me activate your patriotic overrides to common sense so we can justify the incoming slaughter of palestinian civilians

Yes the policy “allows” for that, but the decision solely lies with FIDE. And the examples they give are of deranking. What they mean by that is not Changing Womens Grandmaster into a general Grandmaster. The requirements for a GM are higher. You need 2500 ELO and perform three “norms” of 2600 performance rating. Essentially have high ELO and show against other GMs your skill. For a WGM you need an ELO of 2300 and three “norms” of 2400 performance rating.

Since a WGM doesn’t meet the GM requirements (otherwise they would be a GM) they can’t get that title. But now they’re stripped of their WGM title as well and placed in rank of FIDE master, which requires “only” an ELO of 2300, and no norms. As such it is lower than WGM.

A player at that level is already well connected and known in the community. They wouldn’t be able to keep their transition secret, what with the rumour mill going around. Plus the decision of whether they want to “derank”, giving up their earned title for a lower but more gender-affirming one, should ultimately lie with the person and not with the body that already bestowed that title on them.

Yeah I thought you were the person I had initially replied to, and was expanding on my initial thought trying to clarify that while having a womens category is not discrimination, this regulation is discriminatory.

Sorry that got confusing, I’m referring to this section:

If a player holds any of the women titles, but the gender has been changed to a man, the women titles are to be abolished. […] The abolished women title may be transferred into a general title of the same or lower level (e.g., WGM may be transferred into FM, WIM into CM, etc.).

I think the scenario they are trying to prevent here is a cis man posing as a trans woman getting access to the easier womens titles, gaining titles like Womens Grandmaster, and then “detransitioning”. Now they are in possession of a Grandmaster title they wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. It’s not the Grandmaster title but still. So to prevent that they’re now a FIDE master.

The solution to this completely made up problem ends up of course stripping trans men of their “Womens …” title to a lower title.

Right, so the transphobic fear the FIDE has is that men might try to exploit a loophole by “posing” as trans. So they have these severe restrictions on who might be considered transitioned, why they will “alert” tournaments that someone is trans, why they require legal proof of transitioning before giving in and why they’re stripping trans men of their titles (so that if a cis man manages circumvent all these protection by successfully posing as a trans woman and having won all these titles transitions back, he no longer has them).

It’s the same trans-panic as in so many other sport federations. Severe legislation hurting trans people trying to pre-empt a completely made up cheating scenario.

edit: (hopefully) clarified the wording

No it’s the federation which hosts many tournaments amongst them the “big boy tournament”, the World Chess Championship, and parallel to that the Womens World Chess Championship.

Are they afraid of loosing to trans people or women (cis and trans)?

There is only a womens-only league. The other leagues are open to everyone.

There is a huge gender gap and the men discriminate against women and prefer to play other men. Thus the women get worse/less diverse practice than men which leads to them being worse at chess on average than men.

This leads to them not qualifying for tournaments, which means even less chances to practice because the best way to get better are tournaments. Thus the womens league so they can at least play their equal in a tournament setting. Also having a lower entry barrier for women hopefully motivates more women/girls to play chess.

The gender division is because women on average are worse than men at chess and likely to be eliminated in a tournament early on if they manage to qualify at all.

This is because chess is a boys club where men and boys get better training and have an easier time advancing and practicing then women.

The best way to get better at chess however are tournaments, where you can play your equal under a stressful and emotional context. Since women can’t advance as well as men because of discrimination, they wouldnt be able to play tournaments making it even more difficult to advance their game.

The women’s league are created so that women can play in tournaments, get practice, get better and be able to play in the big boy tournaments as well as a creating an environment where sexual harrasment, which is also a problem at the main tournaments, is mitigated.

Edit TL;DR women’s league are there because women chess players typically get sidelined. Its basically affirmative action.

Grocy could be useful, it is essentially an inventory tracker. Meant for pantries but it scales very well I think. Depending on lab size of course but if you were considering a spreadsheet than it should be more than sufficient I think.