Anti-Defamation League Changes Its Definition of Racism After Backlash

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The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) has again changed its definition of racism amidst public backlash, after the organizationโ€™s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, criticized then accepted the apology of television personality Whoopi Goldberg for making racially insensitive and inaccurate remarks on โ€œThe View.โ€

On Feb. 2, the organization Californians for Equal Rights Foundation (CFER) and 20 other civil rights groups sent a letter to the ADL raising alarm over its definition of racism.

In July 2020, the ADL redefined racism as the โ€œmarginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.โ€

In a press release, CFER called that definition of racism โ€œabsurd and narrow-mindedโ€ with roots in critical race theory.

โ€œThe far left is waging a culture war by redefining and engineering fundamental concepts that we use daily, including racism, along political and ideological lines,โ€ said Frank Xu, president of CFER. โ€œAs a society, we must be on high alert and push back.โ€

The ADLโ€™s redefinition of racism came into the media spotlight when Goldberg said on the television show โ€œThe Viewโ€ on Jan. 31 that the Holocaust was โ€œnot about race.โ€ Greenblatt quickly condemned her remarks on Twitter and appeared in a segment on the show the next day.

ABC has suspended Goldberg from the show for two weeks.

In the Feb. 2 letter, CFER and the co-signing partner groups claim ADLโ€™s attempt to redefine what constitutes racism is a โ€œdeeply offensive, illiberal, and un-American ploy to ascribe guilt and innocence to individuals on the basis of their race.โ€

The groups represented in the letter suggested ADL adopt a definition similar to its former definition of racism: โ€œthe belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a personโ€™s social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics.โ€

Byย Brad Jones

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