The Anti-Defamation League updated its definition of racism Wednesday after its CEO and national director, Jonathan Greenblatt, appeared on The View the day before to speak with Whoopi Goldberg.
Racism is now defined by the ADL as something that “occurs when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.”
This is only an interim definition and is subject to change, according to the ADL, whose mission is “to stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all.”
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Several years ago, the ADL changed its definition of racism to the following: “The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.”
“ADL updated our definition to reflect that racism in the United States manifests in broader and systemic ways and to explicitly acknowledge the targeting of people of color — among many others — by the white supremacist extremism we have tracked for decades,” Greenblatt said in a statement released by the ADL.
“While this is true, this new frame narrowed the meaning in other ways. And, by being so narrow, the resulting definition was incomplete, rendering it ineffective and therefore unacceptable,” it continues. “It’s true, it’s just not the whole truth. It alienated many people who did not see their own experience encompassed in this definition, including many in the Jewish community.”
Goldberg, under heavy criticism for saying the Holocaust was “not about race,” apologized for her comments.
“I know a lot of people were very upset by what I said yesterday, and the things they’ve — I regret, and so I want to clear this up,” Goldberg said.
Greenblatt explained why the Holocaust was about race and described the struggles of the Jewish people.
“I mean, it’s a real issue, and we’ve got to confront it and the racism at the core — I mean, keep this in mind that the Nazis implemented their Nuremberg Laws, right? Which dehumanized the Jewish people,” he said.
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“My grandfather, my ancestors, lived with this in Germany, and in many ways, the Jim Crow South used some of the same standards against black people that we used against Jews, except the Jews were ultimately put into cattle cars and incinerated. That’s why it was such a singular catastrophe and a moment of evil in human history.”
