not on reddit yet but potential drama if posted on /r/books or /r/scrabble or /r/boardgames or something?
Article exceeds the word limit for posts so some choice paragraphs:
She flicked her thumb across the glowing screen, dialing letters up and down to find all the possible word combinations in that day’s puzzle. Within minutes, the grid of mostly brown squares turned turquoise, accompanied by a click signaling success.
Seven white letters had appeared: “Lynched.”
“It was unbelievable,” said Buckner Walker, founder and president of Kids Across Parents Down, a Chicago-area company that creates crossword puzzles. “I thought, ‘Are they trolling African Americans?’ Why ‘lynched’?”
The New York Times crossword began running puzzle clues and answers past a diversity panel this year after controversies involving the use of words such as “beaner” and “illegal,” which are racial slurs that also have innocuous meanings.
Yet Buckner Walker said Merriam-Webster officials were slow to rid “Typeshift” of demeaning terms even after she alerted company executives in December to the appearance of the slurs “BIPOCette” and “darkies.” (The computer-generated anagram game challenges players to form as many words as possible using the letter combinations dealt each day. Players who click on the found words are directed to the Merriam-Webster definitions.)
Even after Buckner Walker spoke to Barlow, disparaging terms showed up on the website version of the game that the company does control. The transphobic slur “” appeared on May 19. The racial slur “coons” appeared on Sept. 13.
Players on the mobile app, meanwhile, received credit for finding “slave” on July 19, the antisemitic term “hebes” on Aug. 31 and “bitches” on Sept. 24, among other racist, misogynistic and homophobic words observed by The Post in screenshots and in real time.
In the Scrabble world, players expressed confusion and outrage over the list of 259 words characterized as slurs to be banned from competitive play. “Redneck” was blocked. “Redskin” was not, because it also carries a benign definition as a variety of peanut. “Cute twink,” despite being a homophobic slur, remains eligible for play because of its archaic meaning of “a bundle of sticks.” Players were also mystified by the exclusion of “Pepsi,” which is used in Canada as an insult against French-speaking Quebecois.
word policing is everywhere!!
edit: not exactly related but lol just chanced upon this heckin' racism
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You make want to quit this sight with your fricking bullshit. Marsey is stupid and you're r-slurred enough to make everyone else here seem less r-slurred. Frick you and your weeb cat cartoon.
Snapshots:
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omg
now this is really offensive
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Based, upvoted
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TIL that’s a real word and not some racist 4chan term.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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It's the feminine version of negro, just like dudette is the feminine version of dude.
Sheboon and BIPOClett on the other hand are 4chan memes rather than real words with historical meaning
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I’ve had a black friend unironically say BIPOClet. He definitely does not use 4chan. So I guess that words entered the common vernacular.
This morning, Cum went to the park. I went with Coom. And Cum brought Coomer frisbee. At least I think it was Coomers. By the end of the day, Cum started throwing the frisbee to Cumself.
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I have boomer relatives that have said "What a cute little BIPOClet" without a hint of scorn or hate. Like, they saw a cute black baby, and the word that came out was BIPOClet. Lol 👶🏿
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"BIPOClet" unironically sounds cute.
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I've called my baby cousins, nieces, nephews and female friends this for years, regardless of race.
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Holy frick
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BIPOClet is used by actual black people somehow. In that hilarious video about black schoolkids picking cotton, the narrator uses it.
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Link? Never seen it.
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Probably this one
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Thanks for reminding me this clip exists lmao.
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I heard, IRL, people using "BIPOClet" decades before 4chan existed. Always as a slur, though.
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The word negro isn't considered offensive everywhere, I assume the same is true for this.
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how tf did you not know this? are you not up to date with all racial slurs?
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And its "archaic" meaning as food in the UK?
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no human is illegal sweaty.
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I'm allowed to write the slur because I directly quoted it. Please be more considerate of your word usage next time.
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If I have an illegal cute twink, that means I bought some firewood without paying sales tax
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Slur filter strikes again!
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Please ban the following words which may be used in a negative context:
Short, tall, nappy, hoe, coal, night, mayo, yellow, red, jew, Irish, orient, fast, loose, roast beef, pancake, flat, heavy, butter, shade, petite, fluffy, thirteen, fourteen, fifty, eighty, eight, statistics, crime, locomotive, engineer, switchyard, trap, surprise, consent, fake, dilate, cope, seeth
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If "Illegal" is illegal, can anything even be illegal?
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the word "za" is traumatic to me and must be removed because the biggest fricking scrabble nerds keep playing it such fricking bullshit its not even a word you fat c*nts
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Dude I’ve played that in scrabble and my friend legit threw the board in a coffee shop.
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My mom would always crush me in scrabble with these ridiculous nonsense words. Frikin try hards
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This is the only dumb butt scrabble word I know and I just got one chance to use it.
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Qi is another good one.
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Why is the journo writing this like a middle schooler's start to a drama novel
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Gonzo
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I don’t even hate 🏀s but reading shit like this makes me want to scream that i do hate them from a rooftop
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You're being baited. As a Dramatard at least acknowledge what's happening.
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the way i avoid being racebaited is to notice that it's always women doing this dumb bullshit
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It’s always the college diversity hire 🏀 that are uppity like this. 99% of them are cool it’s just these types
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College and now industry too. CDO's are a thing now.
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This is Tariq erasure
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Journos need to stop acting like they're writers
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Anyone who writes like that is 120k in debt to their liberal arts collage. And for good reasons.
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lol canadians can't stand even the canadian frenchies
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TIL
https://maisonneuve.org/post/2010/02/4/how/
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goddarn there's actually some history behind it lmao
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the "Il est un vrai pepsi" gave me a chuckle
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Imagine being Anglo in Quebec
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Would love for these people to face some real hardships in their life.
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And mayos are fragile lmao
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everyones fricking fragile now. everyones looking for a handout of persecution
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George floyd wasn't illegally killed, he was just part of a less-than-consensual facesitting orgy
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Come on, Twitter already made it clear exactly what led to his death:
"Report of a counterfeit bill being passed at [...]"
Okay Chauvin, go check it out, grab some coffee on your way back.
"Suspect is a black male, mid 30s"
LOCK AND LOAD, BOYS. WE GOT A DARKIE STEPPING OUT OF LINE
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Lol reminds me of the black lady that got pissed about Hobby Lobby selling cotton branches as decorations in their floral department.
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illegal is a racial slur now
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Washington Post stating as fact that 'illegal' is a racial slur.
Goddarnit American you need to start deporting Marxists.
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Nice find
Also funny how it's always asians how love the +BIPOC licenses. You can lock us all out of your IP while continuing to ignore our patent laws. This has serious potential to destroy the west if you go through with it
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There's a near future scenario where an HR department wants to make a list of terms you shouldn't say in an email, but they're too afraid to type out the list of terms because it could be perceived as offensive.
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this website definitely ought to have a +BIPOC license on it's codebase.
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Reminds me of 21 jump street "My BLACK tittie will lactate WHITE milk.
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