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The Merriam-Webster Dictionary has officially changed the definition of "racism."
boingboing ^ | 06/13/2020 | Thom Dunn

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1984; definition; definitionracism; dictionary; lawyers; merriamwebster; orwelliannightmare; playtheracecard; racism; racismdefinition; revisionisthistory; sjw; stalinisttactics
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas
This definition is BLM and Democrats.
41 posted on 06/16/2020 4:58:13 PM PDT by Vision (Obama corrupted, sought to weaken and fundamentally change America; he didn't plan on being stopped.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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.


42 posted on 06/16/2020 5:25:08 PM PDT by Captain Rhino (Determined effort today forges tomorrow.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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.


43 posted on 06/16/2020 5:46:43 PM PDT by HandyDandy (I was once IN before the jump-roping Tyrannosaurus Rex.)
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To: frank ballenger
How sad to have his work corrupted and made into a short term PC travesty.


 


'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.'  


44 posted on 06/16/2020 6:12:59 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: cgbg

We’ve always been at war with East-Asia.


45 posted on 06/16/2020 6:15:11 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Elsie

Another of your elegant and classy replies in the crude, harsh world of male FReepers.

Great one.


46 posted on 06/16/2020 6:39:47 PM PDT by frank ballenger (End vote fraud,harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; GOPsterinMA; campaignPete R-CT; ...

Racism = anything White.


47 posted on 06/16/2020 9:49:07 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Dear Mr. Kotter, #Epsteindidntkillhimself - Signed, Epstein's Mother)
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To: CodeToad

Big time .......same recipe. Same stink as the ultimate goal.


48 posted on 06/17/2020 1:01:48 AM PDT by Squantos (Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: frank ballenger

Aw...  shucks...
 


49 posted on 06/17/2020 4:16:57 AM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: fieldmarshaldj

And Christian.


50 posted on 06/17/2020 6:35:40 AM PDT by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

How does it make sense to use the being-defined word in its definition?


51 posted on 06/17/2020 7:54:40 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: rightwingcrazy

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.


52 posted on 06/17/2020 8:11:49 AM PDT by gnickgnack2 ( Another bad day for Trump, he only got seven major things accomplished .)
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To: gnickgnack2
How does it make sense to use the being-defined word in its definition?

Mirriam Webster's authors/editors have no undeartanding of mathematics nor logic.

53 posted on 06/17/2020 9:16:41 AM PDT by ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas (Mozart tells you what it's like to be human. Bach tells you what it's like to be the universe.)
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

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


54 posted on 06/17/2020 3:12:37 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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"Systemic Racism" is the lie that allows the cry-bully to claim victimhood while creating an amorphous boogie-man used to claim their grievance, without having to identify an actual grievance that might be fixed.

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

55 posted on 06/17/2020 3:17:34 PM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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