(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.
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Backed up by their privileged friends.
Fails to understand nuances/ differences between individual/ institutional/ systemic prejudices.
Uses helplessness in the wider issue to excuse personal inaction.
Argues against the demographic their discrimination affects.
“We already have equality.”
“Science says…” quotes from bigoted, uninformed, prejudiced science, while neglecting to acknowledge the inherent white supremacy of science.
Uses loved ones as a shield to support prejudiced view.
Uses slurs/incorrect terminology while insisting they’re not discriminatory.
Says someone’s feelings are valid while totally ignoring them.
“You don’t represent all [marginalised group].”
Unrealistic expectation on [marginalised demographic] that they don’t apply to themselves.
Slippery slope fallacy/ “Where does political correctness end?”
Denial of the lived experience of the oppressed.
Uses their lived experience as an oppressor to prove/perpetuate a harmful stereotype.
Takes disagreements as attack.
Centres themselves in the argument/ uses a personal issue to garner sympathy.
Uses being marginalised in different areas to excuse discrimination.
Emphasises hearing both sides as though historical and contemporary society hasn’t erased marginalised voices.
Victim blaming.
Uses “feminist”/ “leftist”/ “liberal”/ “woke” or other derivatives as slurs.
Uses reductionist dictionary definitions of complex manifestations of systemic oppression to support arguments.
Tone policing/ wages allyship on the niceness of the oppressed towards them personally.
Uses the anger, frustration, and exhaustion of oppressed people to say they aren’t calm/rational/logical enough to be valid.
“I have [person from marginalised demographic] in my PMs telling me they agree but don’t want to say publicly.”