ethnomasochistic

adjective

self-loathing on the grounds of one's own race

Scrabble 28

Meanings

adjectiveethnomasochistic (comparative more ethnomasochistic, superlative most ethnomasochistic)

comparative more ethnomasochistic · superlative most ethnomasochistic

  1. derogatorygovernmentself-loathing on the grounds of one's own race

    How, then, are ethnomasochistic WASPs to be “saved,” above all from themselves?

    2011, Andrew Fraser, The WASP Question, page 326
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    Our decadent, ethnomasochistic society cannot, however, avoid forging pseudo-heroes or sub-heroes: football players, soap opera stars, humanitarian doctors, […]

    2011, Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance, page 156

    This is nothing less than the inversion of meaning through the perversion of perception. It is the sacrificing of Shakespeare on the altar of the ethnomasochistic angst that is the bane of postmodernism.

    2016, Joseph Pearce, Through Shakespeare's Eyes

Origin

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Chicago

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