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racialist

racialist

4 9.3
A person who thinks one race is better than others
  • noun
  • /ˈreɪʃəlɪst/
  • Offensive
translation icon : racista
  • The extreme of racialist thinking in the early twentieth century served as the foundation of Nazism.
  • racialist thinking
  • anti-racialist

Examples

  • The same thing could be said about the racialists who hear racial comments in everything that other people say.

    Blog text (34)
  • Many people oppose racialist ideologies that promote division and hatred among different ethnic groups.

  • Are you accusing me of racialist discrimination?

  • In the movement, this racialist movement, we believe there is a hierarchy of races.

  • Today, the substance of the racialist philosophy is rejected except by a few elements on the extreme right.

    Academic text (2003)
  • Thus, if one believes in and accepts race and racial groupings, one is a racialist.

    Academic text (2006)
  • From what I've heard, Europe, with its hate-crime laws, has a much bigger problem with racialists/anti-Semites than here.

    Blog text (24)
  • Yet they continue tacitly to endorse a 19th-century racialist conception of themselves every time they label an opponent "anti-Semitic."

    Blog text (33)
  • He was labeled a racialist after expressing views that suggested one race was superior to others.

  • The group's racialist beliefs led to widespread discrimination against minority communities.

Synonyms

racist
vsracialist
  • Offensive
176 5.4

A person who dislikes or treats people of other races unfairly

is mainly belief without necessarily seeking group dominance
supremacist
vsracialist
  • Offensive
63 8.6

A person who believes one race is better than others and wants that race to have power

is belief plus prejudice that may not include active promotion

Antonyms

2 7.0

A person who wants all people to have equal rights and chances

A person who supports equal respect for different cultures

How Biological

race realist
  • Offensive
1 9.9
racialist
  • Offensive
4 9.3
egalitarian
2 7.0

Surface Forms

racialist singular
racialists plural

Morphology

racialist = racial (transparent) = racial + ist

Formed by adding the productive agentive suffix '-ist' to the adjective 'racial', so the meaning 'one who holds racial views' follows expected English word-formation.

Etymology

Racialist starts with race, a common word for a group or 'breed' of people, and adds the ending -ist, a simple way to name a person, as in artist. So a racialist is someone who thinks in strict groups of race and often believes one group is better than others.