white supremacist

See also: White supremacist and white-supremacist

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

  1. Characterized by white supremacy. [20th c.]
    • 2007, Haile Gerima, Why We Make Movies‎[1], page 200:
      Even a film like Do the Right Thing is a very white supremacist film.
    • 2012 August 7, “SPLC fellow: ‘I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that [Page] essentially expected to die’”, in CNN‎[2]:
      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.

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white supremacist (plural white supremacists)

  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. [1890s]
    • 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[3], New Orleans: William E. Myers, page 48:
      Dr. Martin has always been an ardent white supremacist and figured in several movements for the overthrow of negro domination.
    • 2018 September 4, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency”, in The Washington Post‎[4], archived from the original on 21 December 2019:
      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.

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