No, Precious, No One “Changed” the Meaning of Racism
There’s nothing sneaky going on — racism was always more than overt bias and a belief in biological supremacy
Lately, I’ve seen and heard a lot of people complaining — conservative white folks mainly — that someone (no doubt a critical race theorist or a charter member of Antifa) has changed the definition of the term “racism.”
And not only in their own usage, but even the one you’ll find in the dictionary.
Sneaky bastards.
To hear these folks tell it, the definition has been changed to suit the woke mobs seeking to force a new orthodoxy on America when it comes to race.
And what is that orthodoxy?
Namely, the idea that racism is not merely a personal flaw, evidenced by hateful prejudices towards other racial groups, but also a systemic force in our national life.
According to this way of thinking, the notion that racism is more than racial hate by one person against another is a recent contrivance with no intellectual or historical basis.
If dictionaries have added the concept of racism as a structural force to the definition of racism itself, it just shows how far the tentacles of the left have reached…
