Posted on 06/16/2020 8:48:46 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
On Thursday, June 4, 2020, a 22-year-old activist named Kennedy Mitchum reached out to the publishers of the Merriam-Webster Dictionary to express her frustration with their definition of the word "racist:"
A belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race.
Mitchum felt this was inadequate to fully cover the scope of systemic issues and unconscious biases that affect race relations in America. Growing up in Florissant, Missouri — just a few miles away from Ferguson — she'd grown tired of trying to explain to people that racism can come in different forms than cross burning in white hoods. It's not always a conscious, intentional, or deliberate attitude of hateful violence; it's often something more insidious. As she explained to CNN, "That definition is not representative of what is actually happening in the world. The way that racism occurs in real life is not just prejudice it's the systemic racism that is happening for a lot of black Americans."
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Joe? Debate? LOL.
All you need to do to screw Joe up is ask him what he said 5 minuites ago. Or read the same paragraph twice.
They are going to need some powerful drugs to get him minimally ready to go on-stage with PDJT.
I keep harkening back to the definition of “A Nation”. According to Michael Savage, A Nation is defined by its Borders, its Language, and its Culture. The Bad Guys have managed to mangle all three.
 'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, ' it means just what I choose it to mean, neither more nor less.'
'The question is,' said Alice, 'whether you can make words mean so many different things.' 'The question is,' said Humpty Dumpty, 'which is to be master - that's all.' |
We’ve always been at war with East-Asia.
Another of your elegant and classy replies in the crude, harsh world of male FReepers.
Great one.
Racism = anything White.
Big time .......same recipe. Same stink as the ultimate goal.
And Christian.
How does it make sense to use the being-defined word in its definition?
You are right, I think I like this added definition. Since BLM and the lefties ARE “a political program based on the ASSUMPTION of racism”, BLM and the lefties are, in fact, racism personified. By assuming white priviledge and racism in all whites, they now prove themselves to be racist.
Mirriam Webster's authors/editors have no undeartanding of mathematics nor logic.
George Orwell would be very unhappy that his books of warning seem to have become the guidelines for what the left want for our future.
Mark
This allows the cry-bully to claim perpetual victimhood, knowing that the non-existent problem will never (and can never) be solved, since it doesn't exist, except through the cry-bully's claim and "the sanction of the victim" (thank you Ayn Rand) of self- hating, white-guilt activists.
Mark
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