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by sdegutis 2612 days ago
You'd think Scrabble would want to stay neutral with politically charged words like this so as not to offend any potential customers and instead ultimately gain more purchases and fewer boycotts. Especially a word like ze which would not exist if we parents had been doing our jobs correctly.
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I’ve got to imagine that the sort of people who would be sufficiently offended by the inclusion of a novel pronoun to _refuse to play a board game_ are not common enough for, er, whoever’s in charge of scrabble to worry about.