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Posted on Jan 20, 2008 - 1:09am by John P. in News, Thoughts
Thanks to Jason for pointing out that Bobby Fischer, the Chess Master, is now dead.
I feel the same way about Bobby Fischer as I do about Charles Manson. These are two people whose views of the world are sickeningly twisted to the point that the only conclusion I can make is that mental illness is involved in both cases.
Bobby lived his whole life for only two purposes, to play a game, and to be the poster child for antisemitism. His flagrant disregard for laws and authority caused him to blame the U.S. Government or the Jews for everything that ever happened to him. Even in death he laid blame at the feet of the Japanese and Icelandic governments. If you ask me, Fischer was a media whore and he probably just broke the law everywhere he went in order to stay in the limelight.
Why do I say that? Well, here are a few choice quotes:
Bobby Fischer: This is, they, they did this all behind my back.
Pablo Mercado: Umhum.
B.F.: Nobody contacted me–nothing.
P.M.: All right.
B.F.: Nobody contacted my lawyers–nothing. The fuckin Jews want to destroy everything I’ve worked for all of my life.
P.M.: What, what–
B.F.: There was no holocaust the Jews are liars. It’s time we took off the kid gloves with these parasites.
P.M.: All right with, with all of these things Mr., uh, Fischer what do you intend to do now?
B.F.: I intend to do what I’m doing right now.
P.M.: What?
B.F.: –Which is to expose the Jews for the criminals they are, the parasites they are, the liars they are, the thieves they are, the murderers they are.
Oh, and if you really want to remember what a freak this guy was, watch the video here and you’ll understand what I’m talking about.
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Bobby Fischer, now there is a blast from the past, I forgot that he wasn’t dead already.
So you call him a “media whore” but you still give him attention? It looks like your just giving him want he wanted.
Philip,
You may be right, but this is the last attention he’ll ever be getting from me, and he ain’t even around to enjoy it.
John
Hey at least you’ll get the last word on this one =p
I admire your honesty and courage. I think you have very strong points there but I disagree ultimately. It is sad to see almost anyone go and worse, in the conditions that Fischer did. I wouldn’t relate him with Charles Manson at all, maybe they both belong to the deranged but that doesn’t mean crazy people is bad.
If anything, I feel sorry for the loneliness in which Bobby Fischer lived almost all of his life, misunderstood, left alone with his illnesses, broke(n).
Still it takes some guts to make such a defying statement as you did. It sure made me think deeply about this event.
Antonio,
I agree with you that it is sad to see almost anyone go. People who know me well would tell you they are surprised to hear me make a comment like this. I am a huge advocate of free speech, and I’m often critical of governmental abuse of power. So I can empathize with anyone who has suffered abuses of the state.
Having said all that, there is no justification for the hatred and racism that Bobby Fischer broadcast throughout his lifetime, and just because I believe in allowing a man to speak his mind freely it doesn’t mean I have to like what he has to say.
Additionally, although I am a generally peaceful person, I am not naive enough to think that all problems can be worked through. Fischer and I would have never, ever, ever come to agree with one another - and I’m glad that the world is rid of one more person who is so full of blind racial or religious hatred.
You are right that just because someone may be crazy it does not make them bad, but at the same time there are people who are just plain bad - and there is nothing any of us can ever do to change that.
John
I admire Bobby Fischer’s courage and I respect him.
He had some good and true points.
Although am a repeat reader to your lovely blog, I truly do, but sometimes I feel sick for some of your comments.
Thanks for bringing this up.
Mark,
I am glad that you normally enjoy the articles, and I suppose it’s good that sometimes we will have differences of opinion. That is what makes the world interesting.
You’ve probably also noticed that I don’t often actually post articles that are intensely controversial - maybe 1 in 20. But have you also noticed that some of these are the most interesting? Not because of the articles themselves, but because of the comments!
Out of sheer morbid curiosity, I would be interested in knowing what “good and true” points he had that you agreed with…
John
I admired Bobby as a kid, I think I even used that same thinking pose as him (jokingly but with some respect) when I played chess in grade school. He obviously lost it but he seemed to suffer from that too smart disease that was displayed in your smartest people in the world post. I wonder if the people who deny the holocaust also deny that the US used nuclear weapons. Why do they all deny the same things?
I agree. Bobby was a nutcase. So was the co-inventor of the transistor: Shockley
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Shockley
He was pro population manipulation. He believed the “less intelligent” shouldn’t reproduce.
Both genius’s, both crazy.
I’ve never head of him ?
guess I’m better off ay