: an advocate or adherent of the supremacy of one group : a person who believes that one group of people as identified by their shared race, ethnicity, sex, gender, or religion is inherently superior to other groups and should have control over those other groups
one of the most notorious groups of white supremacists
Recent Examples on the WebThis conspiracy theory claims that the West is being colonized in reverse by the global South, and has inspired a string of white-supremacist terrorist attacks in places such as Christchurch, New Zealand, and, most recently, Buffalo, New York. Namwali Serpell, The Atlantic, 2 Aug. 2022 Five hours before in Buffalo, a White supremacist gunned down 13 people in a supermarket — 11 of them Black. Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 16 May 2022 On Friday, Tops Friendly Markets will reopen the doors of its Buffalo store two months after Whitfield’s 86-year-old mother Ruth E. Whitfield and nine others were killed when a White supremacist opened fire there. Nicquel Terry Ellis, CNN, 15 July 2022 The mother of three made a call to action to other White parents about the insidious nature of violent White supremacist and alt-right sites. Maia Niguel Hoskin, Forbes, 27 May 2022 Congress had been overwhelmed by a mob of election deniers, white-supremacist militia members, conspiracy theorists, and Trump loyalists. Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022 In 2012 who could have imagined the election of President Donald Trump, the proliferating threat of White supremacist and White nationalist groups, and the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the nation's capital? Peniel E. Joseph, CNN, 26 Feb. 2022 The Washington ally also classified a white-supremacist group known as the Base as a terrorist entity. Rhiannon Hoyle, WSJ, 1 July 2022 In a 180-page diatribe, the 18-year-old White suspect allegedly details how he had been radicalized and describes the attack as terrorism and himself as a White supremacist. Adrienne Vogt, CNN, 17 May 2022 See More