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
To recap, Tucker Carlson had a chat with Nick Fuentes and now conservatives can’t decide whether to reject or embrace the racists and antisemites among them.
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Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Then when the racists show up, set the place on fire, and start shooting inside, everyone is obviously trying to escape.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
There’s racists doing it, people worried about birth control doing it.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
Sean Charles Dunn in August called federal officers racists and fascists and threw his subway sandwich at one federal agent.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
These are the grifting savages who’ve shown their gratitude to hard-working Americans who rescued them from their primitive native lands by robbing us blind while calling us racists and demanding even more handouts.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Republicans are inadvertently playing into Democrats’ greatest strength with these voters—the sense that Republicans are racists who don’t want them here.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
For them, a highly permissive interpretation of free-speech law gives cover to racists, and a permissive interpretation of the principle of academic freedom allows for the perpetuation of exclusionary scholarship.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Rafael Perez, Oc Register, 9 Jan. 2026
Then when the racists show up, set the place on fire, and start shooting inside, everyone is obviously trying to escape.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 8 Dec. 2025
There’s racists doing it, people worried about birth control doing it.
—Lorena O'Neil, Rolling Stone, 10 Nov. 2025
Sean Charles Dunn in August called federal officers racists and fascists and threw his subway sandwich at one federal agent.
—Carrie Johnson, NPR, 6 Nov. 2025
These are the grifting savages who’ve shown their gratitude to hard-working Americans who rescued them from their primitive native lands by robbing us blind while calling us racists and demanding even more handouts.
—Howie Carr, Boston Herald, 24 Oct. 2025
Here, teachers aren’t supposed to tell students that the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 — a defining incident of racial violence in Oklahoma history — was perpetrated by racists.
—Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica, 22 Oct. 2025
Republicans are inadvertently playing into Democrats’ greatest strength with these voters—the sense that Republicans are racists who don’t want them here.
—David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 22 Oct. 2025
For them, a highly permissive interpretation of free-speech law gives cover to racists, and a permissive interpretation of the principle of academic freedom allows for the perpetuation of exclusionary scholarship.
—Louis Menand, New Yorker, 26 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for racists
supremacists
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Constantly landing on jokes — like in its portrayal of Lockjaw and his efforts to become a member of the Christmas Adventurers Club, a powerful white-supremacists faction — siphons a sense of urgency from the film’s sketches of American unrest and white male violence.—
Angelica Jade Bastién,
Vulture,
24 Nov. 2025
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“Racists.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/racists. Accessed 14 Jan. 2026.
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