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Scrabble players quit game after 400 offensive words banned from list (www.news.com.au)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Is "jew" still on the list? That one didn't make a damn bit of sense.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's weird.

JEW
JEWED
JEWING
JEWS

All removed.

On the other hand, quite a lot of the list does make perfect sense for them to remove. "Jewed" probably needs to go. The next word is"jigaboo", also. 😬 😬 😬

Full list: https://ia903406.us.archive.org/31/items/csw21/CSW19-removed-words.txt

[–] [email protected] 2 points 18 hours ago

FAGGOTRY
FAGGOTY
FAGGY

So close, yet so far.