‘Racism’ needs no politically correct redefinition

Published June 11, 2020 9:11pm ET



The philologists and etymologists at Merriam-Webster are succumbing to the mob, and it’s a piteous sight.

Now they are changing the definition of the word “racism” to reflect politically correct nonsense that makes a muddle of a concept that once was clear. This is Orwellian doublespeak, serving the goal of “destroying words — scores of them, hundreds of them, every day.”

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