So, the new definition of racism will be something along the lines of “power plus prejudice”. That isn’t a clarification, it’s Newspeak, right out of Orwell’s 1984. This is designed to make overt racism against certain groups like whites, Jews, and successful Asians not racism because while it is prejudice, those groups have power. The powerless cannot be racist against the powerful.
Merriam-Webster is incorporating that into its definition now. It will become an official part of the English language that racism depends as much or more on the powers a group has.
What’s more stunning is that the editors at Merriam- Webster didn’t just listen, but are going to act on this one (1) barely adult snowflake’s meanderings.
Merriam-Webster to Make Orwellian Update to the Definition of ‘Racism.’
Merriam-Webster plans to expand on its definition of “racism” in its dictionary in order to include systemic racism. The move comes after the publisher received a letter from a recent college grad imploring them to make the update because when she would get into arguments with people about what racism is, the definition failed to include systemic racism.
“So, a couple weeks ago, I said this is the last argument I’m going to have about this. I know what racism is, I’ve experienced it time and time and time again in a lot of different ways, so enough is enough,” 22-year-old Kennedy Mitchum told KMOV4, a television station out of St. Louis, Missouri. “So, I emailed them about how I felt about it, saying this needs to change.”
“I basically told them they need to include that there is systematic oppression on people. It’s not just ‘I don’t like someone,’ it’s a system of oppression for a certain group of people,” Mitchum added.
Mitchum exchanged a number of emails with Merriam-Webster before the editor agreed to the change and wrote back, “While our focus will always be on faithfully reflecting the real-world usage of a word, not on promoting any particular viewpoint, we have concluded that omitting any mention of the systemic aspects of racism promotes a certain viewpoint in itself.”
A revised definition is currently being drafted.
Currently, they list the definition as follows:
1: a belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race
2 (a): a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
2 (b): a political or social system founded on racism3: racial prejudice or discrimination
The politicization of language has become an increasing problem over the years. If you look up words like “fascism” or “Nazism” on Wikipedia, you will find that they are erroneously linked to “far-right” ideology, even though, for example, the Nazi Party literally meant National Socialist German Workers’ Party.
The left’s attempts to change history and language to suit their agenda are creepily reminiscent of George Orwell’s novel, 1984.
The fact is, this change in the definition of racism is less about the definition itself than the legitimatization of the idea that systemic racism is an undeniable fact, which it is not. In the wake of George Floyd’s death, the most commonly cited example of systemic racism alleged by the left is racist policing, and that is pure fiction………