George Orwell foresaw a time when the rulers of society would change the meaning of words so that some types of discussion became impossible. The powers that be in the Seattle public school system are having a good try at doing just that. Note this definition of "racism" on their website:
"The systematic subordination of members of targeted racial groups who have relatively little social power in the United States (Blacks, Latino/as, Native Americans, and Asians), by the members of the agent racial group who have relatively more social power (Whites).
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So blacks cannot be racist by that definition. A pity that they often are, though, as we see here, for example.
Evan Maloney has a good comment on the Seattle situation too:
"The school system also says that "emphasizing individualism as opposed to a more collective ideology" is a form of "cultural racism." In other words, if you believe that group privileges should not be placed above the rights of individuals, you are a racist. The only way not to be a racist is to embrace a "collective ideology," which throughout history has been better known as communism or socialism.
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Comment from a reader:
"In fact, in Detroit and New Orleans and Atlanta Blacks ARE "In Power" so, according the Seattle nuts, White people there can't be racists."
UN pans Tokyo's 'racist' new law
"Top UN race-discrimination investigator Doudou Diene has denounced a new Japanese law for compulsory fingerprinting of foreigners as evidence of a worldwide trend towards "criminalising" outsiders".
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Sounds like a lot of dou dou to me.
Scoop Jackson "Rehabilitated"
We read:
"A bronze bust of the late Sen. Henry 'Scoop' Jackson is back on its pedestal at the University of Washington after being banished for years to a fourth-floor alcove. The bust had been moved in the mid-1980s amid a campus debate over Jackson's hawkish positions on the Cold War and nuclear arms".
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Jackson was a moderate Democrat who served in Congress from 1940 to 1983.
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