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 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 Not long after she was hired by a prior commission that trumpeted its decision to appoint a Black woman, Bowden-Lewis implied the commissioners were racists for failing to appoint a Black candidate of her choice as the division’s human resources director. Edmund H. Mahony, Hartford Courant, 6 Feb. 2026 Researchers of the far right along with Fishback’s Democratic opponents say his rhetoric — particularly against Donalds, the GOP frontrunner, who is Black — are explicit callouts to white nationalists and racists on the right. Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 20 Jan. 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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