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Florissant woman helps change Merriam Webster's definition of racism
KMOV-TV (see BS in St Louis) ^ | 06/08/2020

Posted on 06/09/2020 1:55:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper

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Looks like Merriam Webster might soon be a fake dictionary. This girl's "experience" is apparently going to be used to define the word.

Pathetic.

1 posted on 06/09/2020 1:55:05 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

The Merriam-Webster dictionary has deteriorated over time. The Second Edition Unabridged was the best American dictionary ever made.


2 posted on 06/09/2020 1:59:58 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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"Mitchum said that definition was too simple and too surface level."

Word definitions should be simple and universally accepted or no one will know what they really mean. Leftists prefer words that have no absolute meaning, however, so that they can reinterpret them however they want and always be right.
3 posted on 06/09/2020 2:11:18 AM PDT by Telepathic Intruder
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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.


4 posted on 06/09/2020 2:25:06 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SoFloFreeper

What is the definition now? Any Republican that wins an argument against a Democrat?


5 posted on 06/09/2020 2:26:04 AM PDT by Nateman (If the left is not screaming, you are doing it wrong.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Doesn’t matter. There isn’t a definition of ‘racism’ that doesn’t include/infer whitey bad.


6 posted on 06/09/2020 2:31:14 AM PDT by Altura Ct.
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What is the definition now?

recognizing the cultural deficiencies in others

7 posted on 06/09/2020 2:31:27 AM PDT by 867V309 (Lock Her Up)
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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


9 posted on 06/09/2020 2:47:37 AM PDT by SteveH
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To: SoFloFreeper

I misread the title and saw fluorescent and tinker bell was now a victim of racism.


10 posted on 06/09/2020 2:55:20 AM PDT by xp38
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To: Dr. Sivana

I am glad that I bought my Merriam-Webster Unabridged dictionary 20 years or more ago.

I can’t recall which edition it is.


11 posted on 06/09/2020 2:56:45 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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The problem is that America is not a single system. It is a macrocosm consisting of millions of systems. Each organization (functioning group) is a system.

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).

12 posted on 06/09/2020 3:05:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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This entire compliant s/b "complaint"...

Still operating in a caffeine deficiency.;-)

13 posted on 06/09/2020 3:07:28 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
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14 posted on 06/09/2020 3:09:49 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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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.


15 posted on 06/09/2020 3:16:10 AM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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“And she’s a lawyer.”

That could be the problem.


16 posted on 06/09/2020 3:30:07 AM PDT by riverrunner
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I guess if you can’t change a law, change the letter of the language.


17 posted on 06/09/2020 3:31:31 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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To: SteveH

When they say bend the knee, they mean bow and submit just like Islam politically demands.


18 posted on 06/09/2020 3:33:24 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Joe Biden- "First thing I'd do is repeal those Trump tax cuts." (May 4th, 2019))
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‘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?’


19 posted on 06/09/2020 3:41:18 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (In 2016 Obama ended America's 220 year tradition of peaceful transfer of power after an election.)
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An American bends his knee to no Earthly king or potentate.


20 posted on 06/09/2020 3:43:08 AM PDT by Haiku Guy (It's Winnie-the-Flu / Put the blame where it belongs / On Winnie-the-Poo)
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