Yes! I distinctly remember that my version of the Encyclopedia stated that racism could only be enacted by the ruling class! Now it’s been modified to say discrimination of any race based on skin color which negates the “systemic” of it all!

But if we don’t have a baseline reference of words you get people doing to common words what wypipo did to “woke”. Very unserious.

When it comes to the majority wielding words to suit their regime and agenda, anything can be manipulated. That’s why I hold multiple versions of these texts. They tell on themselves every time….

To change with the times. Your first screenshot is what I was referencing. I have a Webster dictionary from ‘97 that has a VERY different definition of racism that the current addition might have. I am also an Encyclopedia Britannica Baddie. The edition I have is DIFFERENT

So I’m glad you showed this to mean because it leads me to my last point i wrote in your other reply. (Again, we’re not fighting lol im just very passionate about words, meaning, and literacy). So previously i replied that these dictionaries have to say they aren’t authoritative because they have ..

But that’s what people are doing with words in real time. There needs to be a baseline line reference for what words mean. I also think that Webster and Oxford have to say that because they adapt with the times. If fish means building 100 yrs from now, they’ll have to say that.

1. I have so much to say on this topic because it infuriates me when people don’t know the meaning of a word, assign it a whole new meaning for the fuck of it, and decide to go through life misusing the word and everyone goes along with it.