Hasbro will change the rules of the game to prohibit the use of slurs and racial epithets.Words of hate and bias won't appear on any Scrabble board in official tournaments going forward.
Chew, who joined the association in 2009, said the topic has come up in the past, as the association uses different dictionaries than the official Scrabble dictionary for play. The association decided not to remove some slurs from adult competition because there was a debate about removing words such as poo and fart, which could be offensive to certain players.
"The key difference is a word like fart and poo are just words that people say to make others feel slightly uncomfortable ... but then there are words like the n-word that are used to specifically demean people," he said.Chew said players for the most part don't use slurs in competitive play, but nonetheless, those words should be reviewed and stricken from official play.
Worda like, fake news?
Now it’s just getting silly.
Boy, I needed a good laugh! Everybody go look up the spelling bee with the little white boy spelling 'negus' - It's a hoot!
So many feelings
So then... which letter to use?
Was this a problem
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Hi liars! Try telling the truth!
The left ruin everything
There is hope that the next generation of children won't know these words because we will have removed them from culture and put them where they belong, in history. We need children to understand the shame of ignorance.
lol they were allowed in the first place? wtf.
weak shit
I guess music is next. I doubt they'll do that though. Too much of a reach for their mindset. Offensive words shouldn't be anywhere actually but I can sense that this not all racial. Racism is evil but there are opportunists who use racism as fuel for their own ends without actu.
Who would even those words when playing Scrabble? Must be a slow pot stirring day.
George Carlin is spinning in his grave.
dingleberry no longer double word score huh.
Let’s ban ALL MUSIC with those hateful, demeaning words!!
If it’s in the dictionary then it should be excepted, so let’s ban all bad words from all the dictionaries! Problem solved! 🤦♀️🤷♀️
Come on! They are words in a game about words!
Most of these companies announcing these changes are conpanies nobody has talked about in years. Almost makes you wonder if they’re getting woke for publicity...Scrabble, Aunt Jemina, Uncle Ben’s - what is this, 1986?
And we continue the march down the path toward Orwell’s greatest nightmares. You fools.
'n-word and c-word from official play. 'I thought to myself, 'Why haven’t we done this already?'' Chew told ABC News.' lol so they would administer points for the use of the n word in tournaments?
I knew they'd catch up with Scrabble eventually. It was only a matter of time.
WHO Cares? Snowflakes ❄️❄️❄️
So the game in no longer based on English?
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