Yogesh Raut — a three-time champion of the game show 'Jeopardy!' —caused quite a stir online after he criticized the show in a string of Facebook posts this month.
racking up a"string of victories" at high-level tournaments but only winning recognition for beating low-ranked players.
It was as if, Raut explained, such an expert player could only become famous for winning"at a non-standard bughouse version of chess, a derivative game designed to introduce high levels of variance that constantly threaten to swamp out differences in skill level, on a glorified reality show." But Raut claimed the problems with quiz culture in American ran deeper than just"Jeopardy!" itself, returning to the theme of racism in multiple posts about his time on the show.Alex Trebek — a longtime host of the show "Jeopardy!" — died in 2020."Racism doesn't always look like a tiki torch held aloft or a swastika on an armband. Sometimes it looks like a double standard in defining ‘arrogance’ or other undesirable qualities.
Raut also told a story of a"kindly-seeming grandma" who told him to"spend less time ‘memorizing’ and more time living a ‘balanced’ life, as though the only way an Asian person could possibly know facts about her culture is by memorizing them, rather than by living a life full of agency and passion like a 'real' American."CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP
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