“The usage of racism to specifically describe the intersection of race-based prejudice with social and institutional oppression is becoming more and more common among English users,” he wrote. After several more exchanges, in which Ms. Mitchum questioned whether their sources reflected a diverse society, Mr. Chambers confirmed that the dictionary would revise the entry after the editorial staff discussed it and agreed more nuance was needed. Chambers said they are also planning to revise the entries of other words that are related to racism or have racial connotations. The point, he said, was to make the entry’s wording less “opaque.”“We will make the idea of systemic or institutional racism even more explicit in the wording of the definition,” he said.

Source: New York Times June 10, 2020 18:27 UTC