When you attack "woke" thinking you are of course attacking one party but you're not allowed to say that here. We get the usual people jumping on the pile. The website you linked only has a jpg of a headline, not a story. The website itself is full of extreme right wing propaganda so consider the source.
Now the truth about the story is entirely different than how it is presented here as being some kind of "woke" prohibition about playing the game. If honesty and truth are in any way your goal, perhaps you might want to spend a few moments on the internet to find the original material for that jpg shot.
It comes from The Atlantic which relates the story of how the game monopoly was created, how the properties on the game board relate to the people who designed and promoted the game lived, and the racial segregation in Atlantic city at the time.
It does not say you shouldn't play the game or that the game is racist nor that its creators were racists. Rather, it uses the game to illustrate the American reality of the 1930's in a manner easy to understand. Some of the expensive properties were exclusively white even walled off, with covenants to prohibit non whites from living there. The maid for the game designer lived on Baltic, the cheapest property on the game board.
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Although Black residents and tourists could work at hotels such as the Claridge, between Park Place and Indiana Avenue, they were not permitted to dine or lodge there. Some hotels even offered white guests the option of having only white workers wait on them. Black employment was largely limited to the tourist industry, as political and municipal jobs were reserved for white residents.
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What could have been an opportunity to learn has instead on this thread been turned into another attack on a political philosophy.