Posted on 07/09/2020 2:17:03 PM PDT by Ennis85
Scrabble just got W-O-K-E.
Players of the classic board game will no longer be able to rack up points for spelling out racial and ethnic slurs, according to Scrabble officials.
A total of 236 bigoted words were removed from the official Scrabble word list used at tournaments — in order to make the game friendlier to all types of people, The North American Scrabble Players Association. said Wednesday.
“Removing slurs is the very least that we can do to make our association more inclusive,” NASPA CEO John Chew said in a statement. “How can we in this day tell prospective members that they can only play with us if they accept that offensive slurs have no meaning when played on a board?”
But not all members of the 10,000-strong group, which was polled about whether to scrap the hateful words agreed — and some were angry about the change.
“Some members threatened to leave the association if a single word were removed; others threatened to leave the association if any offensive words remained. There were a lot of good and bad arguments on both sides,” Chew said in the statement.
The group didn’t say which specific words had been removed but Chew told NPR the “N word” — worth a measly eight points — was among the first to get the boot.
The toy company Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble, backed up the decision by changing the rules of the game “to make clear that slurs are not permissible.”
The firm said it has worked to eliminate offensive words from the game’s dictionary with every new edition that’s released.
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Ginger is an insult used against Whites with red hair so it is OK.
They already removed a few prior to this. The new mobile app is lousy anyway.
I think they should just do away with the game. Every word could be offensive to someone.
Have they notified Webster Dictionary? They’re next!
The world has gone mad.
Did “soupcoolers” make the list? Or is that really two words?
Niggardly only means Cheap, or Stingy.
Let the Scrabble people enforce their new rules.
I used to be a ginger. Now I only have my ginger hair on the back and sides.
Amazing how much has been “accomplished” by making assumptions about Minneapolis police protocol.
So, the words no longer exist?
Gee, and I didn’t know “slurs” were allowed under the pre-woke rules.
No ban in my home!
They say that red hair originated with Neanderthals.
If so, that would be a good thing.
They were superhuman in many ways, and wooed European women.
that’s gonna put a chink in my scrabble armor...
Scrabble be rasis,cuz “whitey” be worth 15 points, an “ni##er” only be worth 8.
Well, that’s just dumb. They may be verboten by the the neo-society, but they are still real words.
Oh well, I haven’t played Scrabble for years, and we always used the OED as the arbiter, and likely would again, if I ever do play again..
they have eliminated the n’s so there can be no more n words.
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