Board games have now become woke

Published July 7, 2022 12:00am ET



In an effort to raise awareness of social injustices, the woke Left has gotten Scrabble to ban 400 “offensive” terms that refer to racial slurs, sexuality, and gender identity.

“I’ve heard the argument that these are just words, but we believe they have meaning,” Mattel’s global head of games, Ray Adler, said. “We need to modernize it.”

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