: prejudiced against people with dark skin
specifically
: showing favor to light-skinned people over those with darker skin within a racial or ethnic group
Over the weekend, Khloé Kardashian faced a particularly vicious bout of cyberbullying that might be among the most inappropriate yet, since commenters began leaving racist and colorist comments about her five-month-old daughter, True Thompson. —Andrea Park
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