Scrabble to ban slurs, other offensive words from official tournaments.
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.
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