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 didnt 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 games dictionary with every new edition thats released.
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236! Wow, they have a strong imagination.
Is there a list of the forbidden words? Or are they so forbidden that there is not even a list?
Thus ends my dreams of a professional Scrabble career.
I enjoy playing Scrabble and it has never occurred to me to use a slur or racist terminology.
Good one!
Webster’s was first. They changed the definition of “racism.”
You are right, but F E C K is worth more.
I know, I put the asterisks because the thought police are monitoring everything these days.
There was a classic Far Side cartoon of the bearded psychiatrist sitting and listening to a patient blabbing away.
On his note pad he had written:
Just
Plain
Nuts.
That’s what America sounds like now. Banning Scrabble words?
There are still “correct” and “incorrect” ways to spell words? I thought that was racist.
I never used the scrabble dictionary anyway. my preferred is Webster 2nd International, the last one before very utterance that that can be identified as having been used by two or more inebreants is listed as a legitimate word.
Just like those phone cops back in the 70s.
ML/NJ
Ha, are they going to station word police in homes.
If so please post the link.
If you play it than just make your own Rules
Coccyx?
LOL! There’s the reality of it.
“A”? ;-)
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