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Resistance See other Resistance Articles Title: ADL Admits It Doesn’t Know What It’s Been Fighting The Antidefamation League, or ADL, was founded in 1913 to fight antisemitism and racism, but after battling racism for 109 years, it just admitted that it doesn’t even know what it is. It wants the public to help it find out. The ADL has an $80 million budget, headquarters in New York City, 25 regional offices, and a bureau in Israel. Since 1970, it has been telling the FBI who’s a hate group and who’s not. I think it’s about time the ADL figured out what it’s fighting. According to the Wayback Machine, until 2020, this was the ADL’s definition of racism: “the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person’s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.” This sounds like two separate definitions – one about superior races and another about biology. Apparently the ADL used this definition for some time, even though the classic example of racism – calling a black person the N-word – isn’t even included. You don’t have to believe anything about race or biology to call someone the N-word. It’s a way to insult someone. Sometime in the summer of 2020, at the height of the George Floyd riots, the ADL got a new definition of racism: “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” So, now it was clear: it had to do with being bad only to people who aren’t white. Why the ADL didn’t leave it at that, I don’t know, but it said you couldn’t have racism without a “socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” That means if the Chinese decided to deport all the black people in China, that wouldn’t be racism, because it wouldn’t be part of a racial hierarchy that privileges white people. Expelling blacks would privilege Chinese, not whites. And if a black man sets out to kill every white person he finds, that’s not racism because only non-whites can be victims of racism. Earlier this month, the ADL changed its definition again. But it’s so unsure of itself, it calls this an “interim definition.” “Racism occurs when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.” Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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