The Anti-Defamation League (ADL) faced public backlash for its redefinition of racism after the organization’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt, criticized—then accepted the apology of—television personality Whoopi Goldberg for making racially insensitive and inaccurate remarks on “The View.” The ADL has since changed its definition of racism. 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 “marginalization and/or oppression of people of color based on a socially constructed racial hierarchy that privileges white people.” In a press release, CFER called that definition of racism “absurd and narrow-minded” with roots in critical race theory. “The far left is waging a culture war by redefining and engineering fundamental concepts that we use daily, including racism, along political and ideological lines,” said Frank Xu, president of CFER. “As a …