“Racist” is quickly losing its original meaning, and has come to be applied inappropriately so often, it soon loses its power altogether. When it is applied to persons of Northern European origin only, and other xenophobic acts by non-whites are ignored or excused on the basis of “fairness”, then the term itself is xenophobic and unworthy of discourse.
Judge Curiel, were he a competent and even remotely free of bias, would have sent this case to summary judgment long ago. As a civil case, it is essentially dead letter, as the original plaintiff demolished her suit, and was removed, because of earlier statements on record that she spoke glowingly of Trump U. Her veracity was called into question, and no other plaintiff mounted an argument even remotely on the same level.
Sorry, but it hasn't lost its power. The Left has used it effectively many times as part of the politics of personal destruction. Reps cower when it is used. Paul Ryan attacked the racism of Trump. Romney calls it "trickle down racism."
“Racist” is quickly losing its original meaning, and has come to be applied inappropriately so often, it soon loses its power altogether.”
George Orwell (Eric Blair) in his `Politics and the English Language’ pointed out that in the `30s and `40s (he fought along with socialists in the Spanish civil war, but saw their theory in practice, particularly the Stalinists, then described it in the allegorical novel `Nineteen Eighty-four’), socialists (communists) would use the word “fascist” so much that it lost its meaning completely, e.g.
“That fascist waiter is ignoring us ... my fascist landlord ... “ and so forth and so on until the term “fascist” came to mean, he wrote, nothing more than: “something I find objectionable”.
That’s where we’re at now. `Racist’ doesn’t mean any longer `hatred or intolerance of another race or other races’. When the left uses the term now, because it has been corrupted by them to mean “Anyone opposed to my agenda, or anything I find objectionable,” the term “racist” now is meaningless.
So I’m going to disagree. It isn’t losing its meaning. When used by the left it has lost its meaning entirely.