Pathetic.
The Merriam-Webster dictionary has deteriorated over time. The Second Edition Unabridged was the best American dictionary ever made.
So she wants to make excuses for people who are racist against white people by changing the definition to ‘systemic racism’.
And she’s a lawyer.
What is the definition now? Any Republican that wins an argument against a Democrat?
Doesn’t matter. There isn’t a definition of ‘racism’ that doesn’t include/infer whitey bad.
i am feeling systematically oppressed by the current culture that seems to be requiring me to bend my knee!
i know, ... it’s racism!
lol
I misread the title and saw fluorescent and tinker bell was now a victim of racism.
So when you say that racism is "systemic," which "system" specifically are you referring to.
This entire compliant that "the system is racist" is akin to a child saying "life is unfair" simply because things aren't going his way.
Do people who are complaining about systemic racism want that problem to be fixed or is it a general "floating" complaint about life. If they want it to be fixed, they have to offer specific solutions to address carefully defined problems.
At the bottom line, it seems that the complaint--"systemic racism"--is an emotional one. For it to be addressed, that emotional complaint must be redefined as a logical, rational problem with logical, rational steps that can be taken to fix is.
The "defund the police" idea is very much like a child's "I don't want Daddy to discipline me anymore." And that brings us to the notion that this complaint doesn't really seek an answer.
It is a purely emotional response which seeks vague emotional redress (in other words, it is a complaint that CANNOT be fixed).
Manipulating a dictionary entry to redefine and weaponize a term to increase your entitlement is obviously wrong. Shame on Webster. They are part of the problem.
‘Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. Every concept that can ever be needed, will be expressed by exactly one word, with its meaning rigidly defined and all its subsidiary meanings rubbed out and forgotten. Already, in the Eleventh Edition, we’re not far from that point. But the process will still be continuing long after you and I are dead. Every year fewer and fewer words, and the range of consciousness always a little smaller. Even now, of course, there’s no reason or excuse for committing thoughtcrime. It’s merely a question of self-discipline, reality-control. But in the end there won’t be any need even for that. The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect. Newspeak is Ingsoc and Ingsoc is Newspeak,’ he added with a sort of mystical satisfaction. ‘Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?’
It seems there is no organisation willing to resist the demands or even requests from race obsessed radicals. Our society has lost its immune system.
Ask a hundred people and you’re going to get a hundred different definitions of ‘racism’.
“Newspeak is the fictional language of Oceania, a totalitarian superstate that is the setting of George Orwell's dystopian 1949 novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. To meet the ideological requirements of English Socialism (Ingsoc) in Oceania, the ruling Party created Newspeak, a controlled language of simplified grammar and restricted vocabulary, meant to limit the freedom of thought—personal identity, self-expression, free will—that threatens the ideology of the régime of Big Brother and the Party, who have criminalised such concepts into thoughtcrime as contradictions of Ingsoc orthodoxy.”
The Marxists now write the dictionary.
The false definition pretends that (1) racism cannot exist at the mere personal level, and (2) racism only exists as a systemic social aspect. Both of those ideas are intellectually dishonest in (a) denying the innate role and choices of the individual, and (b) all racism is “society’s” fault and not the fault of the individual.
Everything with Marxists is “social groups” and never the individual. It is a denial of so much that is foundational to western civilization.
New Definition of Racism: “Not taking a knee when demanded to do so by the Left”