{"id":24272,"date":"2020-07-09T22:13:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/scrabble-bans-236-bigoted-words-slurs-from-official-list\/"},"modified":"2020-07-09T22:13:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T19:13:00","slug":"scrabble-bans-236-bigoted-words-slurs-from-official-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/scrabble-bans-236-bigoted-words-slurs-from-official-list\/","title":{"rendered":"#Scrabble bans 236 bigoted words, slurs from official list"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Scrabble bans 236 bigoted words, slurs from official list<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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July 9, 2020 |<\/span> 3:13pm <\/p>\n

\n Scrabble just got W-O-K-E.<\/p>\n

Players of the classic board game<\/a> will no longer be able to rack up points for spelling out racial and ethnic slurs, according to Scrabble officials.<\/p>\n

A total of 236 bigoted words were removed from the official Scrabble word list used at tournaments \u2014 in order to make the game friendlier to all types of people, The North American Scrabble Players Association. said Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cRemoving slurs is the very least that we can do to make our association more inclusive,\u201d NASPA CEO John Chew said in a statement. \u201cHow 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?\u201d<\/p>\n

But not all members of the 10,000-strong group, which was polled about whether to scrap the hateful words agreed \u2014 and some were angry about the change.<\/p>\n

\u201cSome 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,\u201d Chew said in the statement.<\/p>\n

The group didn\u2019t say which specific words had been removed but Chew told NPR the \u201cN word\u201d \u2014 worth a measly eight points \u2014 was among the first to get the boot.<\/p>\n

The toy company Hasbro, which owns the rights to Scrabble, backed up the decision by changing the rules of the game \u201cto make clear that slurs are not permissible.\u201d<\/p>\n

The firm said it has worked to eliminate offensive words from the game\u2019s dictionary with every new edition that\u2019s released.\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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