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supremacist

supremacist

61 8.6
A person who believes one race is better than others and wants that race to have power
  • noun
  • /suˈprɛməsɪst/
  • Offensive
: supremacista
  • The group was formed by a supremacist who believed in the superiority of his own ethnicity.
  • white supremacist
  • supremacist ideology
  • supremacist group

This is a clown car full of fucking white supremacist clowns.

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Examples

  • The rhetoric of racism fueled white supremacist actions throughout the region.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • And we're seeing a rise of white supremacists here in Europe as well.

  • We even had a white supremacist from Alabama who tried to claim responsibility for it.

  • So let's take a look at some white supremacist myths and what they do.

  • Already one radical white supremacist organization is claiming responsibility for the crime.

  • The FBI has shown that white supremacist groups have also effectively used the web to organize members nationwide.

    Academic text (2002)
  • When reporters asked the president about the white supremacist alt right, Trump quickly turned the tables.

  • The German blood and honor group was strongly influenced by British and American white supremacists.

  • Gill said he had decided to infiltrate the white supremacist scene and write a book about it.

    Fiction book (1995)
  • This clip illustrates the explosive growth of white supremacist propaganda on college campuses.

Synonyms

racist
vssupremacist
  • Offensive
208 5.4

A person who dislikes or treats people of other races unfairly

seeks to promote dominance over other groups rather than only discriminate
bigot
vssupremacist
  • Offensive
85 7.1

A person who unfairly dislikes people from other groups

aims to promote one group's superiority and dominance rather than mere intolerance
chauvinist
vssupremacist
  • Offensive
13 7.9

A person who strongly believes their country, group or gender is better and is unfair to others

aims to gain control and dominance for a specific group, often based on race
racialist
vssupremacist
  • Offensive
4 9.3

A person who thinks one race is better than others

seeks to promote dominance and control rather than only hold that belief
ethnicist
vssupremacist
1 9.1

Treating people from one ethnic group better or worse than others

seeks to establish superiority and dominance beyond mere preference or bias
subordinationist
vssupremacist
9.9

A person who believes one person or group should be ranked below another

aims to raise one group above others and actively promote its dominance

Compounds

white supremacist
  • Offensive
53 8.8

A person who thinks white people are better than other races and should control society

woke supremacist
  • Offensive
1 9.9

A person who insists their social justice views are the only right ones

How Extreme

supremacist
  • Offensive
61 8.6
racist
  • Offensive
208 5.4
bigot
  • Offensive
85 7.1

Surface Forms

supremacist singular
supremacists plural

Morphology

supremacist = supremacy (transparent) = supreme + acy + ist

The agentive suffix '-ist' added to the noun 'supremacy' (from 'supreme') yields 'one who supports or practices supremacy', a meaning directly derivable from the components.

Etymology

Supremacist comes from supreme, which means 'highest', and the part super- means 'above', while the ending -ist means 'one who believes or supports'. So a supremacist is someone who thinks their group is 'above' or 'better' than others and tries to make it the 'most powerful'.