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Free Malaysia Today reports
At the [Malaysian] National Scholastic Chess Championship 2017, which took place in Putrajaya recently, the girl was informed that what she wore was "improper and had violated the dress code" for the tournament.
[...] The girl's chess coach, Kaushal Khandhar, wrote on Facebook, "In the middle of Round 2, (without stopping the clocks) Chief Arbiter informs my student that the dress she wore was improper and violated the dress code of the tournament.
"It was later informed (by Chief Arbiter) to my student and her mother, that the Tournament Director deemed my student's dress to be 'seductive' and a 'temptation from a certain angle far, far away'."
[...] Kaushal said after discussions with the chief arbiter, the girl was allowed to compete, provided she bought a pair of slacks for the next day, but that decision came at 10pm and with the event at Putrajaya, there was no way the girl's mother could buy anything for the 9am start the next day.
"Before the morning round next day, my student's mother called the tournament director regarding this matter. Initially he had replied that he was not aware of the situation but after a brief discussion, we realised he knew all the details on this incident prior to this phone call.
"He promised to return the call upon discussion with the chief arbiter, but this did not happen. He would further not answer or return any calls by my student's mother", Kaushal wrote, adding that the situation led to the inevitable decision of withdrawal from the tournament altogether."
We should perhaps note here that Malaysia is majority-Muslim.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @08:03PM (6 children)
It is now OK to be racist in the USA because liberals have overused the term and thereby changed the definition to "non-liberal" or "republican". I'm proud to be a racist!
Meanwhile, we ought to come up with a word to describe discrimination that relates to coarse-grained ethnic physical traits, such as the idea that people who look like Africans can't succeed without special assistance. How about geomorphism or geomorphobia or geomorphphobia?
Of course, none of this matters if our culture is wiped out. Start with a glass of water, and start adding pee. At first it's just "interesting" water, kind of multi-liquid. Gallons later you won't recognize your mixture as water. It's like that when you add 3rd-world people to a 1st-world country. There will be no western civilization. There will be no LGBT rights. There will be no women's rights. But hey, the fundie Christians will be gone, so it's all good, right?
(Score: 2) by ikanreed on Monday May 01 2017, @08:19PM
"Is there some moral imperative to not being a bigoted fuckwit? I'll be an actively awful person to support my team in politics"
--literally every idiot who thinks they're smart.
We need some dead racists every now and then so intellectual cowards whose only concern is for social judgement, like you, don't go chasing every single neofascist who goes up for election.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday May 01 2017, @09:17PM (4 children)
Start with a glass of water, and start adding pee.
It says something weird about you that you want to pee in your glass of water.
Myself, I like chocolate in my milk. Or chai. Sometimes matcha.
Cardamom is nice too. Now that I think about it, I could really go for some thai iced-tea.
Thanks for giving me the idea.
I hope you can enjoy your "interesting" water as much as I am going to enjoy my thai iced-tea.
To each their own!
(Score: 2) by Grishnakh on Tuesday May 02 2017, @02:12AM (3 children)
Drinking too much sugar is bad for you; it's much healthier to drink plain water most of the time.
This shows why analogies really should be avoided more often.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @04:39AM (2 children)
Nah. It shows how aspies frequently miss the forest for the trees.
Literalism for the fail!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @12:06PM (1 child)
Don't tie bigotry to mental conditions, sure it may be a fun insult but you're insulting a separate group to attack another one.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 02 2017, @05:09PM
Who said grish was a bigot?
His post was just textbook aspie literalism.
PS I am an aspie, it takes one to know one.