Scrabble tournaments may soon ban slurs, because they didn't before

Get the Full StoryIn the latest instance of an organisation finally acknowledging racism is a thing they should maybe do something about, the North American Scrabble Players Association will soon vote on whether to ban slurs in tournament play. Because apparently the N-word was considered acceptable up until now.

The members of the NASPA's Advisory Board will vote on whether to expunge 226 offensive terms from its word list within the next few days, after CEO John Chew proposed the move on behalf of the Executive Committee.

"I have felt for a long time that there are some words in our lexicon that we hang onto in the mistaken belief that our spelling them with tiles on a board strips them of their power to cause harm," Chew wrote in a June 20 letter to the association's members. Read more...More about Board Games, Racism, Hasbro, Scrabble, and Slur

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