scottish dramautists have deemed the word "spooky" to be offensive due to its spooky oppressive connotations

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Theatre takes fright at using 'spooky' this Hallowe'en over fears it could be racist

The National Theatre of Scotland said it would “always interrogate language choices” for “historically oppressive connotations”

The word 'spooky' has been censored at Hallowe'en by a major theatre company over fears the term could be seen as racist.

The National Theatre of Scotland said it would “always interrogate language choices” for “historically oppressive connotations”.

During the Second World War, American servicemen began using the term to refer to black pilots, and use of the word has caused some controversy in the United States.

However, Prof Sir Geoff Palmer, Scotland’s most prominent black academic, claimed the publicly-funded charity was “doing more harm than good” and that he had never heard 'spooky' used as a racial slur.

A source told The Sunday Mail that while nobody had complained to the National Theatre of Scotland about the word, there were concerns that its continued use might cause problems in future. It was identified by the organisation as an offensive term, the Scottish newspaper reported.

Prof Palmer, 81, who was installed as the new Chancellor of Heriot Watt University in Edinburgh at the weekend, described the arts body’s intervention as "an irrelevance" and claimed it had no right to interfere with our use of language.

'Doing more harm than good'

"This seems to be another example where organisations think they are doing black people a favour,” he said. “They are not.

“I have never heard of ‘spooky’ being used as a derogatory term for black people and I am a black man. It has always meant to me to be something that’s scary or frightening.

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