the Anti-Defamation League has changed the definition of ‘racism’ on its website from ‘the belief that a particular race is superior or inferior to another’ to ‘the marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people’. In this, they are following the diktats of critical race theorists who believe that ‘racism’ is an equation – prejudice plus power – rather than prejudice or hatred towards individuals on the basis of their race, which is how the vast majority of people understand the term.
