The changing definition of 'racism'

[Emily]

Oct 3, 2019:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191003010523/https://www.adl.org/racism

Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.

Dec 2, 2020:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201202200152/https://www.adl.org/racism

Racism: The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.

 

[GardenSpider]

Oct 3, 2019:

https://web.archive.org/web/20191003010523/https://www.adl.org/racism


Dec 2, 2020:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201202200152/https://www.adl.org/racism

Interesting to see how the definition has not only narrowed, but slots into Critical Race Theory and the new Woke Ideology, which many argue is also racist.

 

[alert]

It's not so much racist as just plain wrong. By the updated definition, things such as the ethnic cleansing of the Uyghurs or Tibetans by the Chinese government is no longer racist simply because none of the people involved are "white"? Or do we need to re-define that word as well to make the new definition make sense here?

 

[Emily]

No wonder Whoopi Goldberg got mixed up.