Supremacist
noun
A person who believes that a particular race, religion, or group is better than all others and should have control over others.
The group was known for being white supremacists.
Often appears as...
- white supremacist
- racial supremacist
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Disapproving
noun
A person who believes that a particular race, religion, or group is better than all others and should have control over others.
The group was known for being white supremacists.
Often appears as...
- white supremacist
- racial supremacist
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'supremacist' has a strong negative connotation, implying unfairness and discrimination.
The supremacist views held by the leader were condemned by the community.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Consider how 'supremacist' implies dominance and a desire to control others.
The country's history was marred by supremacist policies that oppressed certain groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
'Supremacist' is often linked to historical and ongoing social issues, like systemic racism.
Scholars analyzed literature for themes of cultural and racial supremacist ideologies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'supremacist' has a strong negative connotation, implying unfairness and discrimination.
The supremacist views held by the leader were condemned by the community.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Consider how 'supremacist' implies dominance and a desire to control others.
The country's history was marred by supremacist policies that oppressed certain groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
'Supremacist' is often linked to historical and ongoing social issues, like systemic racism.
Scholars analyzed literature for themes of cultural and racial supremacist ideologies.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Connotation
The term 'supremacist' has a strong negative connotation, implying unfairness and discrimination.
The supremacist views held by the leader were condemned by the community.
Pro Tip 2/3Power Dynamics
Consider how 'supremacist' implies dominance and a desire to control others.
The country's history was marred by supremacist policies that oppressed certain groups.
Pro Tip 3/3Cultural Context
'Supremacist' is often linked to historical and ongoing social issues, like systemic racism.
Scholars analyzed literature for themes of cultural and racial supremacist ideologies.
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How one tweet can ruin...
On one side you were talking with people around the table -- and that was a nice, constructive discussion. On the other, every time you turned to your phone, there is this deluge of insults. Yeah. This happened last night. We had like a TED dinner last night. We were chatting and it was lovely and nice, and I decided to check Twitter. Somebody said, "You are a white supremacist."
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Interviewing a Former...
The whole idea of a lone wolf is a misnomer. While there are white supremacists who may never in real life meet another white supremacist, that doesn't mean they're not connected. The internet is a technological game changer, amplifying lies and weaponizing propaganda like never before.
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My descent into...
When we don't understand something, we tend to be afraid of it, and if we keep ourselves from it, that fear grows, and sometimes, it turns into hatred. Since I've left the movement, I've helped over a hundred people disengage from extremist movements, from white supremacist groups --
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How technology can fight...
to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.
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R. Alan Brooks: When the...
Just last year, a white supremacist sent me death threats over a book that I hadn't even finished writing yet. But obviously the only reason he was threatened is because he recognized the power of art to change hearts and minds all the way across the world. So I say to you now,
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What really happened...
At the time, Attica prison was severely overcrowded. Its majority Black and Latino population faced constant physical and verbal abuse. All prison guards were white. Some were members of white supremacist hate groups. Guards threw away letters that weren’t written in English
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The lie that invented...
have made sharp critiques of white supremacist culture for centuries, and I knew that in the last two or three decades, scholars had done interesting work looking at race through the frame of whiteness, what it is, how we got it, how it works in the world. I started reading,
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Inside the bizarre world...
to march with torches in the name of the white race. She'd gone, in a few months, from Obama supporter to fully radicalized white supremacist. Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white supremacy.
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Shadows of Forgotten...
We will die to protect the carriers of our DNA and turn away from the suffering of those who don't. Kin selection can inspire us to die saving a brother, but it's also the drive exploited by the demagogue and the supremacist,
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The revolutionary power...
or it could be a white supremacist Nazi-admiring orator somewhere else. All these figures, at first glance -- they seem disconnected. But I think they feed each other, and they need each other. And all around the world,
Video examples
How one tweet can ruin...
On one side you were talking with people around the table -- and that was a nice, constructive discussion. On the other, every time you turned to your phone, there is this deluge of insults. Yeah. This happened last night. We had like a TED dinner last night. We were chatting and it was lovely and nice, and I decided to check Twitter. Somebody said, "You are a white supremacist."
Video examples
Interviewing a Former...
The whole idea of a lone wolf is a misnomer. While there are white supremacists who may never in real life meet another white supremacist, that doesn't mean they're not connected. The internet is a technological game changer, amplifying lies and weaponizing propaganda like never before.
Video examples
My descent into...
When we don't understand something, we tend to be afraid of it, and if we keep ourselves from it, that fear grows, and sometimes, it turns into hatred. Since I've left the movement, I've helped over a hundred people disengage from extremist movements, from white supremacist groups --
Video examples
How technology can fight...
to protect people being courted online by violent ideologues, whether they're Islamists, white supremacists or other violent extremists, with the goal of giving them the chance to hear from someone on the other side of that journey; to give them the chance to choose a different path.
Video examples
R. Alan Brooks: When the...
Just last year, a white supremacist sent me death threats over a book that I hadn't even finished writing yet. But obviously the only reason he was threatened is because he recognized the power of art to change hearts and minds all the way across the world. So I say to you now,
Video examples
What really happened...
At the time, Attica prison was severely overcrowded. Its majority Black and Latino population faced constant physical and verbal abuse. All prison guards were white. Some were members of white supremacist hate groups. Guards threw away letters that weren’t written in English
Video examples
The lie that invented...
have made sharp critiques of white supremacist culture for centuries, and I knew that in the last two or three decades, scholars had done interesting work looking at race through the frame of whiteness, what it is, how we got it, how it works in the world. I started reading,
Video examples
Inside the bizarre world...
to march with torches in the name of the white race. She'd gone, in a few months, from Obama supporter to fully radicalized white supremacist. Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white supremacy.
Video examples
Shadows of Forgotten...
We will die to protect the carriers of our DNA and turn away from the suffering of those who don't. Kin selection can inspire us to die saving a brother, but it's also the drive exploited by the demagogue and the supremacist,
Video examples
The revolutionary power...
or it could be a white supremacist Nazi-admiring orator somewhere else. All these figures, at first glance -- they seem disconnected. But I think they feed each other, and they need each other. And all around the world,
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Bushwick Bill
American Musician
I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.
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Robin DiAngelo
American Educator
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
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Jemele Hill
American Journalist
If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.
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Kat Timpf
American Writer
I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.
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Rostam Batmanglij
American Musician
I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.
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Ron Stallworth
American Public Servant
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
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Kerry James Marshall
American Artist
The U.S. was founded as a white supremacist nation; that's just what it is.
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Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
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Scarface
American Musician
America has that agenda, a White supremacist agenda.
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Corey Stewart
American Public Servant
I'm certainly not a white supremacist.
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Bushwick Bill
American Musician
I guess it's easier to bash rap artists than to talk about the country's real problems, such as the AIDS crisis, poverty, the cost of education, crime or the gun-toting white supremacist militias.
Quote examples
Robin DiAngelo
American Educator
The goal of my work is to make visible the inevitable racist assumptions held, and patterns displayed, by white people conditioned from living in a white supremacist culture.
Quote examples
Jemele Hill
American Journalist
If the lead line in my obituary is 'She once tweeted that the president is a white supremacist,' I will see my life as a professional disappointment.
Quote examples
Kat Timpf
American Writer
I think there are no good people at a white supremacist rally, and apparently that's just a real controversial take.
Quote examples
Rostam Batmanglij
American Musician
I want to live in a world that is less white supremacist, straight supremacist, male supremacist.
Quote examples
Ron Stallworth
American Public Servant
You cannot sit quiet while the KKK and other white supremacist groups rear their ugly heads.
Quote examples
Kerry James Marshall
American Artist
The U.S. was founded as a white supremacist nation; that's just what it is.
Quote examples
Ta-Nehisi Coates
American Journalist
I wouldn't argue that Mitt Romney is a white supremacist.
Quote examples
Scarface
American Musician
America has that agenda, a White supremacist agenda.
Quote examples
Corey Stewart
American Public Servant
I'm certainly not a white supremacist.
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