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Sheryl Rhodes's avatar

Before I understood the vast scope of how activist Left ideology would be driving cultural change, I noticed that “THE” definition of racism had changed overnight to power+prejudice. It was somehow just a done deal, presented as though we had all come to a new agreement on what was a sea change.

At the same time, the somewhat hidden nature of the fact that this definition was changed allowed them to play their favorite game of Motte and Bailey/shared vocabulary but two very different dictionaries. Who isn’t against racism meaning treating people differently and negatively based simply on their perceived racial identity? So one agrees to support anti-racism and finds out eventually that it’s not about shared power and opportunities, but about one particular category of people having absolute power if they fit into some ever-changing racial identity.

So I used my few opportunities to call out this new definition of racism only to be met with blank looks. It’s not that my acquaintances or members of the church groups were SJWs—it’s that they couldn’t imagine how this new lingo could potentially lead to big adverse changes.

Maybe I recognized the import because I had seen feminists making a similar move when they pushed the simplistic construct that rape is ever and always about nothing but power, and not about sex.

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Salomé Sibonex's avatar

❤️

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