white supremacy
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9.0
- noun
- /waɪt səˈprɛməsi/
- Offensive
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supremacía blanca
- Jake's success represents a symbolic settling of scores, a statement against white supremacy.
- the ideology of white supremacy
- notions of white supremacy
- vision of white supremacy
From my vantage point, they're fighting for white supremacy for men.
- From my vantage point, they're fighting for white supremacy for men.
- And so white supremacy actually crushes its own.
- They're out to protect their own white supremacy beliefs and their privilege.
- And capitalism is what is linked to white supremacy and racism and fascism as well.
- Borders are a form of white supremacy.
- And that state of the world is what we call white supremacy.
- A man who took more than a day to remember to disavow a supporter who advocates white supremacy and the Ku Klux Klan.
- So they came to my school that day, and, you know, they're espousing all these views of white supremacy.
- He's he's trying to instruct the community to not be so harsh as it pertains to dealing with white supremacy.
Examples
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The whole purpose of the Democratic Party was to reestablish white supremacy.
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The rise of white supremacy in certain areas has led to increased tensions among communities.
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And we were taking down a white supremacy cell.
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Now we can say it's because it's white supremacy that causes black men to kill white people.
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If Americans did not abandon "white supremacy," the United States would lose the war.
Academic text (2000) -
Seems like this system is setup towards maintaining white supremacy.
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Did Trump win because of fascism and white supremacy?
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The president is "a white supremacist" and that his rise is "a direct result of white supremacy."
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Black Americans favored any erosion of white supremacy around the world, but the question arose, at what price?
Academic text (1998) -
In the 1940s, virtually all southern whites were committed to separation of the races and white supremacy.
Academic text (1997)
Synonyms
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3.0
Treating people unfairly because of their race
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9.9
The idea that one group is better than others and should control them
Antonyms
How Racist
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly and transparently composed from 'white' (a racial/skin-color label) + 'supremacy' (being superior or dominant), yielding the ideology that white people are inherently superior and should dominate. This adjective+noun composition maps clearly onto equivalent terms in many languages (e.g., Spanish 'supremacía blanca'), so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would likely infer the MWE's meaning.
Etymology
White supremacy gives a clear image: white refers to people seen as white and supremacy means 'being in charge' or 'at the top'. So white supremacy is the harmful belief that white people are 'better than others' and should have power over society.