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Sydney Morning Herald on 2021-04-14 00:04

Scrabble-maker accused of ‘wokeness’ after banning hundreds of derogatory terms

“Can you imagine any other game where you can score points and win by using a racial epithet?” said Mattel’s head of global games. “It’s long overdue.”

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