white supremacist

noun

|Updated on: 7 Aug 2018

Examples: white supremacist in a Sentence

Definition of white supremacist

: 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

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white supremacy

noun

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Examples of white supremacist in a Sentence

White supremacists were convicted of hate crimes.

Recent Examples of white supremacist from the Web

Lee connected the film to modern day with real footage from last year's violent white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Virginia.

— jake coyle and thomas adamson, chicagotribune.com, "'Shoplifters' wins Palme d'Or, grand prize to Spike Lee; Asia Argento tears into Weinstein at Cannes," 19 May 2018
In August 1992, heavily armed white supremacists (a group sometimes credited for the birth of the racist, right-wing militia movement in America) were living in a compound near Naples, Idaho.

— lincoln anthony blades, Teen Vogue, "The Oklahoma City Bombing Shows How Long Domestic Terrorism Has Been Racialized," 23 Apr. 2018
Kleve, said to be from Norfolk, Neb., also reportedly participated in the white supremacist march in Charlottesville, Va., last summer where Heather Heyer was killed.

— lisa gutierrez, kansascity, "University of Nebraska won’t expel ‘white nationalist’ student, citing First Amendment," 9 Feb. 2018
The Southern Poverty Law Center, in a report released Monday, also found that state and local governments have removed at least 110 such monuments and tributes since a white supremacist murdered nine African Americans in a Charleston Church in 2015.

— kate santich, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Report finds symbols of Confederacy still widespread, including 65 in Florida alone," 4 June 2018
As an adult living in Colorado, I was singled out in a crowd by a white supremacist because of my race and verbally assaulted in this pain.

— jayme moye, Outside Online, "Jaylyn Gough Asks: Whose Land Are You Exploring?," 31 May 2018
It was placed there by a white supremacist, Wade Michael Page, who attacked the temple on Aug. 5, 2012.

— crocker stephenson, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, "Better Angels: On the eve of the school shooting in Texas, a prayer at the Sikh temple in Oak Creek," 20 May 2018
The change in Georgia came amid debate in the South over what to do with Confederate symbols after the killings of nine black parishioners in a Charleston, South Carolina, church, by a white supremacist in 2015.

— emanuella grinberg, CNN, "These states are observing Confederate Memorial Day today," 23 Apr. 2018
So to paint him as callous and as racist and as essentially a white supremacist.

— ezra klein, Vox, "Ezra and Sam Harris debate race, IQ, identity politics, and much more.," 9 Apr. 2018

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