Complaint over Scrabble’s ‘racist slurs’

Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan – formerly of Queensland, who last year forced Coon cheese to change its name – lodged the complaint to the Australian Human Rights Commission against international toymaker Mattel for allowing the words “abo”, “coon” and “boong” to be played. He said he was “absolutely flabbergasted” the company permitted the use of such offensive words.“My wife and I never encouraged our children, when they were young, to experiment with racially offensive…



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