Lynching

[Psyche]

I’m black too and raised in the deep south where lynchings were once common but I’ve never thought the word “lynch” was anything but a really apt description of what happens in mafia games. The notion that the word is *always* racially charged no matter how it’s used has only been introduced to me within the last year or so and honestly seems only brought up seriously by non-black people. I don’t really get what all this is about.

[Psyche]

Is there a reason some onsite

want

to use the word "lynch"? If site meta was that we all already used a different word, would you advocate we switch to use "lynch"?

Is there any other word out there that means “extrajudicial mob killing”? And isn’t that exactly the mythos underlying the game’s day phases?