Next stop, in chess it will be decided by flipping a coin who starts first, because the fact that the white pieces always have the initiative is racist.
From NZHerald
By Belinda Palmada
Scores of scrabble players are quitting the competitive game after hundreds of "offensive" words were banned.More than 400 terms including racial slurs, sexuality and gender insults were taken off the game's official online words list, GB News reports.
According to Spectator columnist and player Jonathan Maitland, many people are quitting the board game because of the changes.
"It's hard to find anyone in the Scrabble community in favour of the ban," he said.
"That doesn't mean that we approve of any of the banned words, mind you. Among them are some vile racial slurs.
"But the words can't be uninvented: they are part of our sometimes shameful history.
"And playing them in a private word game is very different from using them in any other context."
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