racists

plural of racist
as in supremacists
a person who believes that one race is superior to others a racist facing hate crime charges

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Recent Examples of racists Democrats have little trouble understanding that the right-wing infighting over Carlson is about whether the Republican tent, which already includes racists, nativists, and vicious Islamophobes, is also big enough to include anti-Semites. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Aug. 2026 Where English racists cry DEI hire, American ones cry DEI curriculum. — Brittany Allen, Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2026 Two of the involved officers later sued Torres-Walker for alleged defamation over Facebook posts calling them racists, though both cops were later charged with bribery and implicated in the city’s police racist texting scandal. — Nate Gartrell, Mercury News, 5 Aug. 2026 But to imply that the presence of racists in works of fiction makes those works of fiction racist is to short-circuit the intellect and the imagination at one fell swoop. — Spin Team, SPIN, 22 June 2026 Stephen Lawrence was a black teen-ager who was murdered by a gang of white racists in 1993. — Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 12 June 2026 This despite its violent, heroic left-leaning revolutionaries and a cabal of right-wing racists with unapologetically murderous intentions. — Stephen Schaefer, Boston Herald, 2 June 2026 Many told me the liberal media had smeared them as racists, xenophobes and misogynists. — Nataliya Gumenyuk, The Dial, 21 Apr. 2026 Some are, sadly, timeless, like the rank Islamophobia that leads racists to hurl a pig’s head through the window of Shah’s parents’ Wembley row house. — Alison Herman, Variety, 25 Mar. 2026
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supremacists
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  • Some version of the good European now seems more urgent than ever as ethnic-racial supremacists, egged on by their American allies, undermine political and civic cultures in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain.
    — Cynthia Zarin, Harpers Magazine, 28 July 2026
  • Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel and his far-right government of Jewish supremacists launched a war of annihilation right back.
    — Thomas L. Friedman, Mercury News, 16 June 2026

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“Racists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racists. Accessed 5 Oct. 2026.

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