white supremacist

white supremacist

See also: white-supremacist

English

Noun

white supremacist (plural white supremacists)

1. An advocate of white supremacy, a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.
   • 2018, Philip Rucker and Robert Costa, “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency”, The Washington Post, September 4, 2018:

     At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward’s account.

Hypernyms

• racist

Translations

advocate of white supremacy

Finnish: valkoisen ylivallan kannattaja (fi)

Russian: сторо́нник превосхо́дства бе́лых m (storónnik prevosxódstva bélyx), сторо́нница превосхо́дства бе́лых (f)