Like I said, using the UK is cheating (I guess I should have specified that). I can take a walk down Butthole Lane, look up the bus schedule from Shitterton to Twatt, and then I can go pick up 6 faggots for £1.60. It’s all just part of the nature of the place.

Holy shit, my sides.

ASPIE
ASPIES

...

BUBBA (?)

...

BULLDIKE
BULLDIKES
BULLDYKE
BULLDYKES
BUMBOY
BUMBOYS
CHINKIE
CHINKIES
CHOLO
CHOLOS
COCKSUCKER
COCKSUCKERS

...

DAGO
DAGOES
DAGOS
DARKEY
DARKEYS
DARKIE
DARKIES
DARKY
DIKEY
DIKIER
DIKIEST
DOGAN
DOGANS
DYKEY
DYKIER
DYKIEST
FAGGERIES
FAGGERY
FAGGIER
FAGGIEST
FAGGOTIER
FAGGOTIEST
FAGGOTRIES
FAGGOTRY

Okay, on some of these, they have a point lol.

Also, I got curious and scrolled down to “N”, and all I can say is holy holy shit man. I get it. People cherry-picked out some stupid decisions, but it honestly makes a lot of sense now that I can see the list. I also understand why they didn’t publish the list…

The UK doesn’t count man. If that’s the metric for obscenity then everything is allowed.

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Butthole+Ln,+Shepshed,+Loughborough,+UK/@52.776606,-1.2752399,17z

No. It absolutely is not. Historically it did sure, but I challenge you to go to any corner of the English-speaking world and use it in any sentence at all and have any single person hear you and assume that you mean a bundle of sticks.

B*lg*um

Yes, but presumably if avoiding that situation was the goal they would have removed “faggot.” I can’t even really understand what is the reasoning which might have led them to be extremely aggressive about finding weird slurs that very few people use to root out and remove, while leaving the ones that are actual issues alone. In some way, I think the impotence of the final decision set is somehow connected with the performative nature of it all. Maybe? I have no idea.

Ultimately it seems like they’re just trying to fit in with the times as their clueless executives understand them. I think they’re a few years behind the times, though, actually. Maybe if they were a little more hip they would be trying to release a “free speech” Scrabble with a bunch of new words added and with “liberal” and “woke” removed, now that the 2010s’ brand of stupid performativeness is being replaced with a new type of performativeness that’s different and much darker.

“Paki” maybe. The other two I don’t think are.

I think it’s especially hilarious that “fenian” is a slur. For any Irish person for whom it would become relevant at all, I feel like if you called them a “fenian” they would swell with pride.

1. I don’t think the competitive Scrabble scene (of which there is a very intense one) really needs to be in charge of the game for everybody. But I get why that contingent is incredibly upset. The set of allowed words is locked in stone, such that people practice and optimize particular memorizations around the particular set of words, and they are barely words at that point, just random collections of letters that form the stepping-stones in their grand strategic endeavor. There are Scrabble experts who do not speak the language, just have memorized the words and are good at the strategy. I get why they’re upset.
2. They’re not releasing the exact list, which is automatically a red flag of some fuckery to me.
3. Nonetheless it has been confirmed that “Paki,” “fenian,” and “shiksha” are all on the banned list. Bro what?
4. “Bitch,” “faggot,” and “slut” are all still in the game. 👍

Deciding the list of officially banned words was always going to be a hopeless task, but even within that it looks like they’ve been doing a bad job.

https://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/uproar-over-scrabble-words-that-can-no-longer-be-used/news-story/bb72350938e787cf5566c01109c98dd0

Edit: Uncapitalized