race traitor
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- noun
- /reɪs ˈtreɪtər/
- Slur
:
traidor a la raza
- But we won't accept you because you are a race traitor.
Examples
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Come on, race traitor.
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Many people in the community called her a race traitor for supporting policies they believed harmed their group.
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The race traitor is now everywhere, looking for a strong man to secure his own position.
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Conservatives portrayed the authors as race traitors.
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You're a "race traitor," haven't you heard?
Blog text (34) -
The concept of race traitor is obviously being taken to the extreme with this group of morons, but I think the idea is still a factor even with average whites.
Blog text (34) -
It takes a guy who thinks like an 11-year-old to go around pointing at someone and saying, "he's a race traitor!"
Blog text (34) -
After publicly opposing the group's ideology, he was labeled a race traitor by his former allies.
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The accusation of being a race traitor often silenced voices that disagreed with the majority opinion.
Synonyms
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A person who breaks the trust of their country, group, or friend to help an enemy
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A person who breaks someone's trust by revealing secrets
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A person who betrays their friends or group
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A person who betrays trust or their country
Antonyms
How Loyal
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- Offensive
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- Offensive
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- Slur
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a person regarded as betraying their race' is directly and compositionally derivable from combining 'race' (racial group) with 'traitor' (someone who betrays a group). The sense is a straightforward extension of 'traitor' to a social group and is cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows both words would readily infer the meaning, though the term is derogatory in use.
Etymology
Race traitor joins race and traitor to make a simple image: a traitor is someone who turns against their own group, and with race it suggests a person who helps another racial group. So people use race traitor as a harsh insult for someone they see as 'betraying' their own race.