The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) is an international Jewish organization based in the United States that was founded in 1913 to fight against anti-semitism and the defamation of Jewish people.
Like many other long-existing human rights organizations (like the ACLU), their policies, opinions and activism were very agreeable, liberal, humanitarian, egalitarian and based on constitutional principles and ideals for many decades. However, like so many similar organizations (like the ACLU) in the last decade or two it has been overtaken by far-leftist social justice ideologues that have turned it into a fascistic racist anti-egalitarian anti-constitutional institution. (In the last ten or so years it seems almost like they have been in a competition with the ACLU to see which one can come up with the most totalitarian far-leftist positions and ideals.)
One telling example of this is their official definition of the term and concept of "racism", which can be found on their website. For the longest time it used to be this:
Racism is the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another, that a person's social and moral traits are predetermined by his or her inborn biological characteristics. Racial separatism is the belief, most of the time based on racism, that different races should remain segregated and apart from one another.
Not a bad definition by any means, although I would say it's a bit incomplete, as it doesn't mention prejudice against people based solely on their apparent race. (Likewise, antipathy, distrust, and the instinct to try to avoid someone solely because of that someone's apparent race.) A racist person might not explicitly think of another race of being inferior (or superior), but might still be very prejudiced against people of that race because they are perceived as different (and, perhaps, incompatible with one's own culture and society; not necessarily "inferior", but incompatible in some manner.)
By the way, it's rather ironic that the above definition, very much including the "racial separatism" part, applies extraordinarily well to the modern far-leftist "social justice" "critical race theory" ideology (eg. with university students demanding dorms segregated by race, spaces and events (in one particular example the very graduation ceremony of the university) segregated by race, and so on.)
Anyway, a few years ago the ADL changed their official definition of "racism" to reflect more the far-leftist "social justice" definition of it:
The marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.
(Yes, that's the entire definition.)
Par for the course, only "people of color" can be victims of racism, they cannot be racists, and anything that privileges "people of color" at the expense of white people is not racism (in other words, racial discrimination and segregation is fine as long as it does not "privilege" white people. If it severely disadvantages white people over "people of color", and this is done precisely because of people's race, it's still not racism.)
Besides the unilateral direction of racism, notice what the definition is now missing: There's no mention of the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior, or that someone's social and moral traits are predetermined by one's race. Prejudice is also still missing. And the part about racial separatism, about racial segregation, has been removed.
(The definition seems to equate "racism" with "white supremacy". Probably quite consciously and intentionally.)
All this makes, rather obviously, this definition of "racism" itself very racist. It only considers one particular race to be capable of this condemnable act, and it does not disavow discrimination and segregation by race, negative feelings towards people based solely on their race, or the belief of one race being superior or inferior to another.
The big irony of this definition is that this is a Jewish organization, campaigning against prejudice and discrimination towards Jewish people, yet this definition of "racism" does not seem to include Jews as the possible victims. (After all, depending on who you ask on the left, Jews can be seen as "white".)
Whoopi Goldberg recently got into hot water for stating that she didn't think that the Holocaust was about racism, precisely because she doesn't consider Jews to be "people of color", and thus according to the leftist ideology they cannot be the victims of racism.
This caused quite a stir among the left because they had to be confronted with this hard dilemma of whether Jews are "white" or "people of color" (as I describe in that other blog post I linked above), and whether what she said is anti-semitic or not.
Quite soon after this controversy the ADL once again hurried to change their definition of "racism" (probably because they realized that, potentially, they themselves aren't included in the group that may be the victims of racism), which now states:
Racism occurs when individuals or institutions show more favorable evaluation or treatment of an individual or group based on race or ethnicity.
At least the reference to and distinction between "white people" and "people of color" has been removed, and while not as clear-cut as their original definition, I suppose this is better. The prejudice and/or antipathy based on race could be included in the "more favorable evaluation" part (as "evaluation" does mean what your attitude or feelings are towards a person), and the concept of discrimination can be included in the "more favorable treatment" part.
Still lacks the "belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another" part, as well as the racial segregation, though (at least explicitly). But I suppose this is significantly better than their second definition above.
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