-PJ
Brilliant! The company that sells that overpriced chess set with politicians as the pieces should sell an Antifa/BLM chess set. Only the pawns would be white.
While they’re at it, they should demand that the Bishop be removed as a piece on religious persecution grounds, and be replaced with a Protester.
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And what’s with putting all those pawns on the frontline, man! It’s like they’re expendable or something. It’s pure exploitation, man.
From The Revolutionary Character of the French Revolution by Robert Darnton
...chess pieces were renamed, because a good revolutionary would not play with kings, queens, knights, and bishops; and the kings, queens, and jacks of playing cards became liberties, equalities, and fraternities. The revolutionaries set out to change everything:...
OTOH, Lewis Carroll used a red-and-white chess set to personify in "Through the Looking-Glass".
“While they’re at it, they should demand that the Bishop be removed as a piece on religious persecution grounds, and be replaced with a Protester.”
They should also make the King another Queen.