white supremacist

adjective

Characterized by white supremacy.

First used 20th c.

Meanings

white supremacist1

adjectivewhite supremacist (comparative more white supremacist, superlative most white supremacist)

comparative more white supremacist · superlative most white supremacist · alternative White supremacist · alternative white-supremacist

  1. Characterized by white supremacy.First known use 20th c.

    Even a film like Do the Right Thing is a very white supremacist film.

    2007, Haile Gerima, Why We Make Movies, page 200
    1 more example

    On Starting Point this morning, Southern Poverty Law Center senior fellow Mark Potok discusses the prevalence of white supremacist groups and explains how this type of music is used as a recruitment tool.

    2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN
nounwhite supremacist (plural white supremacists)

plural white supremacists · alternative White supremacist · alternative white-supremacist

  1. An advocate of white supremacy, a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.First known use 1890s

    Dr. Martin has always been an ardent white supremacist and figured in several movements for the overthrow of negro domination.

    1898, The Convention of ’98. A Complete Work on the Greatest Political Event in Louisiana’s History, and a Sketch of the Men who Composed it, New Orleans: William E. Myers, page 48
    1 more example

    At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward’s account.

    2018 September 4, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency”, in The Washington Post, archived from the original on 21 Dec 2019

White supremacist2

adjectiveWhite supremacist (comparative more White supremacist, superlative most White supremacist)

comparative more White supremacist · superlative most White supremacist

  1. Alternative letter-case form of white supremacist

    In 2017, the SPLC identified 450 White supremacist groups that included 78 racist skinhead, 98 neo-Nazi, 43 neo-confederate, 130 Ku Klu Klan chapters, and 100 White nationalist groups (Eady 2017).

    2024 December 23, Jane H. Hill, edited by Barbra A. Meek, Christina Leza, Jacqueline H. E. Messing, The Everyday Language of White Racism, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, →ISBN, page 29
nounWhite supremacist (plural White supremacists)

plural White supremacists

  1. Alternative letter-case form of white supremacist
    1 more example

    The protestors saw this removal as an attempt to erase history and also an extreme reaction to another brutally violent act: the actions of [redacted] (b. 1944), the White supremacist who shot and killed Reverend Clementa Pinckney (1973–2015), Tywanza Sanders (1988–2015), Cynthia Hurd (1960–2015), Reverend Sharonda Coleman-Singleton (1969–2015), Reverend Myra Thompson (1955–2015), Ethel Lee Lance (1944–2015), Reverend Daniel Simmons (1940–2015), Reverend DePayne Middleton-Doctor (1965–2015), and Susie Jackson (1928–2015) at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, on June 17, 2015, an event that Gambino also alluded to in “This Is America” when he gunned down the Black gospel choir, as I discussed in the Introduction.

    2021 June 10, Katie Rios, chapter 1, in “This Is America”: Race, Gender, and Politics in America’s Musical Landscape, London: Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 22

Translations

Finnish valkoisen ylivallan kannattaja
  • valkoisen ylivallan kannattajaadvocate of white supremacy
French suprémaciste blanc
  • suprémaciste blancadvocate of white supremacy
Hindi श्वेत वर्चस्ववादी
  • श्वेत वर्चस्ववादी (śvet varcasvavādī)advocate of white supremacy
Russian сторо́нник превосхо́дства бе́лых, сторо́нница превосхо́дства бе́лых
  • сторо́нник превосхо́дства бе́лых (storónnik prevosxódstva bélyx)advocate of white supremacy
  • сторо́нница превосхо́дства бе́лых (storónnica prevosxódstva bélyx)advocate of white supremacy
Spanish supremacista blanco
  • supremacista blancoadvocate of white supremacy
Swedish vit makt-anhängare
  • vit makt-anhängareadvocate of white supremacy
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