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Title: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: fjaz1 on February 27, 2021, 11:34:22 pm
As I had mentioned in a reply to another poster, I am a professional Scrabble player who plays for money in NASPA tournaments.  Unfortunately due to Covid we have not been able to get together and have any tourneys for a long time, hopefully this summer, so a poor alternative is to play online.  I was playing one of my friends online the other day and he told me that a lot of words are being canceled >:( I haven't seen the list yet but in Adult Tournament Scrabble curse words, slang, and slurs have always been allowed because they are just words to make points we don't usually think or worry about the meaning of them, as a matter of fact it is not necessary to know the meanings but it can help.  It is hard enough to learn the thousands of words you need to know to help you be a better player now we have to unlearn words, what a joke :bad: :bad: :bad: If you don't unlearn these words and use them you can be challenged off and it could cost you a game.  Right now we can still use them online on the site I play on but who knows for how long? Maybe they will reconsider when we start playing live again and people start complaining :thumbsup: 8)
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: minioncookies on February 28, 2021, 06:17:50 am
You can't be cancelled if you don't let it happen. Seriously people need to fight back the ones that others are trying to cancel. This stuff is just getting repetitive . A small little group of people trying to cancel eveyone they don't like just seems silly to me
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: king4cash on February 28, 2021, 11:31:00 am
Cancel Culture is a form of racism to me, and they are behaving like isis, who destroyed religious buildings and western cultures..
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: plennis on February 28, 2021, 12:26:15 pm
What a bummer, bad enough you don't get to play.  Someone seems to have to much time on their hands if they are trying to cancel words.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: stevensm4 on March 01, 2021, 07:48:11 am
You can't be cancelled if you don't let it happen. Seriously people need to fight back the ones that others are trying to cancel. This stuff is just getting repetitive . A small little group of people trying to cancel everyone they don't like just seems silly to me
I will definitely fight back. Just yesterday I was looking at an article where certain celebrities actually didn't have their careers affected by cancel culture. It just reinforces this idea of mine that people think they have more power than they actually have to affect the livelihoods of those that have opinions or say things that other don't agree with.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: sipingyu on March 01, 2021, 08:17:57 am
I didn't know that there are professional scrabble players with competitions to enter in. Sounds cool and is a unique skillset.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: linderlizzie on March 01, 2021, 12:32:35 pm
As I had mentioned in a reply to another poster, I am a professional Scrabble player who plays for money in NASPA tournaments.  Unfortunately due to Covid we have not been able to get together and have any tourneys for a long time, hopefully this summer, so a poor alternative is to play online.  I was playing one of my friends online the other day and he told me that a lot of words are being canceled >:( I haven't seen the list yet but in Adult Tournament Scrabble curse words, slang, and slurs have always been allowed because they are just words to make points we don't usually think or worry about the meaning of them, as a matter of fact it is not necessary to know the meanings but it can help.  It is hard enough to learn the thousands of words you need to know to help you be a better player now we have to unlearn words, what a joke :bad: :bad: :bad: If you don't unlearn these words and use them you can be challenged off and it could cost you a game.  Right now we can still use them online on the site I play on but who knows for how long? Maybe they will reconsider when we start playing live again and people start complaining :thumbsup: 8)

I am impressed by the fact that you play competition Scrabble. We play Scrabble all the time. I had no idea that was happening with the word situation and how it is hindering your progress as a champion.

We just play on the premise that if it's in the dictionary, it's a viable word to use. I'm totally on your side and let's hope they come to their senses again for your sake. Where do I register my complaint for you fjaz1?  :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: potluck6 on March 02, 2021, 10:16:38 am
Pretty soon saying the won't be allowed. And questionable words like it,by,of and you or  be will be out.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: pstovall on March 02, 2021, 11:00:05 am
Unbelievable!
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: calendria on March 02, 2021, 05:39:39 pm
 :cat:


Great Share!  never knew this was a moneymaker!  Played Scrabble all my life (for free)   :thumbsup:
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: miltonarmitage on March 02, 2021, 05:45:06 pm
These cancel culture nut jobs are just getting started. Today I heard on the news that some Dr. Seus books will no longer be printed because they don't fit in with the times. I agree with king4cash, these left wing bigots are like isis and need to be dealt with or we'll be living in a commie pigsty like China or San Fran freako.     
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: Nancy5 on March 03, 2021, 04:02:24 am
Learned something new!  We often play, never knew there were championships.  Good luck when you can play again, hope you are a big winner.  I think it’s totally ridiculous to have to unlearn words.  This is getting totally ridiculous.  If there is anything we can do to stop it, please let us know.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: sdenimandlace1 on March 05, 2021, 03:29:35 am
Wow, had not heard that, My son his friend used to play all the time.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: pstovall on March 09, 2021, 11:25:58 am
I heard yesterday from a friend that soon shoes will not be designated as men's or women's!  Also clothes.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: ssarber on March 09, 2021, 06:46:00 pm
We are completely fed up with this insanity. I have no idea why we are falling into line with all the nonsense. On the other hand what in the world are the sane people in this world supposed to do when the haters are "canceling" everything.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: lywb2168 on March 10, 2021, 05:36:03 am
I am fed up with all of this.  I agree that things need to change mentality wise, but cancelling stuff just because they might offend is crazy,  pretty soon they will rewrite history and forbid the founding fathers for been mentioned, because they were slave owners.  Time changes just learn fromit and keep going.

This world is going crazy by the minute
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: rghvac69 on March 10, 2021, 07:02:25 am
I'm not letting these idiots cancel my culture. They're not going to tell me what to say or think, either.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: mrsmere on March 10, 2021, 01:19:20 pm
Wow changes everywhere and this may cause you to lose money.   Maybe you should stop using the words now while you play online so you will be ready when the tournaments start because it could be a costly mistake then.
Title: Re: Cancel Culture hits the Scrabble Boards
Post by: sfreeman8 on March 10, 2021, 01:38:00 pm
I'm not letting these idiots cancel my culture. They're not going to tell me what to say or think, either.

Nor should anyone tell you what to buy or eat. In the store flyers, it looks like Keto, vegetarian, and whatever the other "diets" are, are being pushed. Who wants a cauliflower crust pizza?  I don't. I don't want riced veggies either. I like to see what the food looks like. I specifically started buying Goya foods because of the boycott that was started and found out their tomato sauce is much better than what I was buying. I like meat, not fake meat and I won't stop eating it. If I have to, I'd go out and shoot my own beef. LOL

Cancel culture is destroying our history. They cancelled 7 books of Dr. Seuss. I never cared for him but his books tell a moral story. They're also picking on Curious George. Just like Disney is cancelling Dumbo, Peter Pan, Swiss Family Robinson, and The Aristocats.  Soon there won't be any historical or old cartoons, stories, etc. They'll find something wrong with everything ever made.  I'm waiting for Rudolph, Santa, Frosty, the Easter Bunny, the Groundhog (in Feb.) and other holiday items to be canceled. They started with books back in the 70s and it has continued in the background since then but it's now out front. So many kids books and stories have a moral to the stories and cancelling them cancels morality. I know, I know, sounds extreme, but other reasoning doesn't make sense.

P.S. I forgot to add Pepe LePew and Speedy Gonzalez. They call those cartoons racist. Not in my mind. I find them funny. The last time they tried to cancel Speedy, people were so upset they didn't do it. The complaints came from lots of Hispanics/Latinos beside other races.