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supremacism

[suh-prem-uhs-iz-uhm, soo-]

noun

  1. the belief that a particular group is superior to others and that group deserves more rights or power.

  2. advocacy for such a belief.



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National exceptionalism is easily interpreted as national supremacism and, even in a multiethnic country like the U.S., as ethnic supremacism.

Lizzo's clip opened with footage of a Fox News pundit criticising the "woke agenda" of people who accused Sweeney of promoting white supremacism.

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South Africa's ambassador to Washington, Ebrahim Rasool, was also expelled in March after accusing Trump of "mobilising a supremacism" and trying to "project white victimhood as a dog whistle".

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"What Donald Trump is launching is an assault on incumbency, those who are in power, by mobilising a supremacism against the incumbency, at home… and abroad," Rasool said at the event.

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I get the most hope from the slow but steady decline of white supremacism in the United States.

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