[ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas]

Ralph Wado Emerson, Nature The corruption of man is followed by the corruption of language. When simplicity of character and the sovereignty of ideas is broken up by the prevalence of secondary desires, the desire of riches, of pleasure, of power, and of praise, -- and duplicity and falsehood take place of simplicity and truth, the power over nature as an interpreter of the will, is in a degree lost; new imagery ceases to be created, and old words are perverted to stand for things which are not; a paper currency is employed, when there is no bullion in the vaults. In due time, the fraud is manifest, and words lose all power to stimulate the understanding or the affections.

[Diana in Wisconsin]

“...it’s the systemic racism that is happening for a lot of black Americans.”

Caused by Democrats!

[jospehm20]

There is no systemic racism favoring white guys over blacks, females or another minority. My experience has been that institutional discrimination goes the opposite way.

[beancounter13]

The way that racism occurs in real life is not just prejudice it's the systemic racism...

...that comes from assuming that all the economic advantages seen by white people are not from their actions but only becuase of their skin color (i.e. “White Privilege”).

How is that for a definition of racism?

[frank ballenger]

Thank you for that.

Emerson is in my all time top ten of writers.

The old Napoleon Hill books and similar ones quote him and quote from the essays “Compensation” and “Self-Reliance.”
At some point schools assigned anthologies which did not have these. Funny. I notice in the old days when printed books were in book stores that the “Compensation” essay was gone from most. A shame.

New versions could be “Government Reliance—Your Only Hope” and “Give Grief to the Ruling Class” for compensation.

[Hillarys Gate Cult]

Hey Merriam-Webster. Are you now in competition with Wikipedia?

They almost got the definition of racism to anything that upsets a leftist. It can be under the new one. I guess full on liberal is for next year.

[KC_Lion]

That quote by Emerson maybe to most terrifying thing I will read today.

[windsorknot]

The word is dead, Jim.

[Migraine]

I read this article. The response of the editor over at the dictionary office made me wonder: what is their definition of obsequious?

Let’s try: “obedient or attentive to an excessive or servile degree.”

Sounds about right.

[z3n]

That definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world.”

~~~

Interpretation: It’s not good enough to have new words and definitions made to encompass new ‘crimes’, so we want to change the old highly charged word to encompass more behavior and even thoughts.

[rightwingcrazy]

I didn’t find their definitions objectionable, regardless of what was asked for.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/racist

Apart from the vernacular definitions, they include

“2a: a doctrine or political program based on the assumption of racism and designed to execute its principles
b: a political or social system founded on racism.”

Fine. Nothing to get up at arms about. I was concerned that I’d see a racist definition of “racism”, but I don’t see that here.

[a fool in paradise]

It was a lawyer who changed it. Ergo all laws have now changed.

Shakespeare knew the problem in this world.

[Jim W N]

Somewhere the racist definition should include the idea of obsession with skin color. To that extent, blacks have a major problem with “racism.”

BTW, nice quote form RWE.

[CodeToad]

Seems blacks want apartheid where they are the masters.

[Vlad The Inhaler]

[cgbg]

The rules of opposites applies to mass media these days.

It was just a matter of time before dictionary words would mean the exact opposite of what the dictionary says.

[tbw2]

This is proof liberals have institutional power. The DICTIONARY rewrites itself overnight based on one SJW’s demand.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

These are the people Aldous Huxley and George Orwell warned us about.

[Skepolitic]

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name. ~ Confucius

[Skepolitic]

The purpose of Newspeak was not only to provide a medium of expression for the world-view and mental habits proper to the devotees of [Progressive Socialism], but to make all other modes of thought impossible.

This was done partly by the invention of new words, but chiefly by eliminating undesirable words and by stripping such words as remained of unorthodox [politically incorrect] meanings, and so far as possible of all secondary meanings whatever.

[Arones]

racism - disagreeing with a liberal.