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racist
rac‧ist/ˈreɪsəst, ˈreɪsɪst/ noun [COUNTABLE] [Word Family: noun: race, racism, racist; adjective: racial, multiracial, racist; adverb: racially] someone who believes that people of their own race are better than others, and who treats people from other races unfairly and sometimes violently – used to show disapproval: ▪ He denied being a racist.
—racist adjective: ▪ the victim of a racist attack ▪ racist violence ▪ racist remarks • • • THESAURUS people who are prejudiced ▪racist someone who treats people of other races unfairly or badly : ▪ When he expressed his opinion, he was branded a racist. ▪bigot someone who has strong unreasonable opinions, especially about race or religion : ▪ a racist bigot ▪sexist someone, especially a man, who believes that their sex is better, more intelligent, more important etc than the other : ▪ Will the sexists ever support a female President?
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a racist/sexist remark (=an offensive remark showing racist/sexist attitudes) ▪ The men are accused of making racist remarks to a taxi driver in a dispute over a fare. ▪ When faced with a sexist remark, women have to either confront the person or ignore it. racial/racist stereotypes ▪ The novel has been criticized for reinforcing racial stereotypes. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ADJECTIVE anti ▪ Canoeists should be looking to their own backyard to promote an anti racist approach within the sport. ▪ He was introduced in 1910, but has recently been decried as insulting by anti-racist campaigners. white ▪ We can either use the Carl Rowan method, which is to label every white conservative a racist. ▪ And I can't watch football any more because of the way white fans shout racist insults at the black players. ▪ Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really doesn't care how she oppresses us as Black women. ▪ Relatives claim that a feud with white racists, which they say police ignored, points to something more sinister. NOUN attack ▪ Sly had not heard about the terrible racist attack on the Bullens Creek community - not many people had. ▪ Do you know about the increase of racist attacks and murders in Britain? ▪ Yildiz was killed on the streets of Glasgow last weekend in what is thought to have been an unprovoked racist attack. attitude ▪ Twenty forces do not have tests to measure whether their officers have racist attitudes. ▪ Do they have sexist, ageist or racist attitudes that might emerge at a critical point in your work together? ▪ Mr Torode's sources are also wrong in saying Fay Weldon and her allies were not invited because they held racist attitudes. discourse ▪ Finally there are some deeper structural factors which constitute the hidden or unconscious premises of these types of racist discourse. ▪ The contradictoriness and ambivalence of racist discourses and interactions are produced by a complex combination of social and psychic structures and forces. ▪ Thus racist discourses and practices are seen to emerge in specific forms. ▪ The force of such metaphors is all the greater because of the unconscious effect which racist discourse itself exerts. ▪ A rhetorical approach would point directly at the argumentative nature of racist discourse. remark ▪ Most prefer to swallow their anger or hurt when professors make sexist or racist remarks. society ▪ Social workers must recognise, therefore, that in racist societies they are working with a potentially vulnerable group. ▪ In racist societies, subject races seem to be slightly more likely to have daughters than sons. ▪ BBoth men emerged from racist societies as champions of equal rights. ▪ Again Cornerville man or the taxi dancer are operating within capitalist, patriarchal and, frequently, racist societies. view ▪ You are so stupid that you are a fan of black music and yet hold racist views. ▪ The allegation is dangerous and insulting to Morrissey, especially when you consider that he has never publicly espoused racist views. ▪ His racist views will be rejected by all the people in this country regardless of party. violence ▪ It was a march against racist policing and racist violence. VERB call ▪ He gets called a racist but I don't think he is. ▪ Dances with Wolves was so biased towards the Sioux that the Crow Nation publicly called it racist. ▪ Almost invariably they fell for it. Call them racist and they would do anything to prove you wrong. ▪ George Bush makes a campaign television commercial about crime, but it features a black criminal, so he is called racist. EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He is accused of being a racist after refusing to be interviewed by a black journalist. ▪ She denies being a racist, claiming to be merely patriotic. ▪ The minister denied that he was a racist, but called for tougher controls on immigration. ▪ There has been a rise in attacks on asylum seekers made by skinheads and other racists. EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Racist attitudes are not simply articulated in the vicious attacks of racist thugs. ▪ Appendix C shows the anti-racism statement together with an extract from one such guidance paper on dealing with racist clients. ▪ How such racist pornographic material escaped the rye of black activists presents a problem. ▪ It involved a group of white-owned businesses in Mississippi being boycotted by civil rights groups accusing them of racist practices. ▪ The contents of the racist pathology and the material circumstances to which it can be made to correspond are thus left untouched. ▪ The inquest had heard that police failed him when he begged for protection from a racist gang. ▪ When the state looks upon such people as second-class, it is no wonder that racists take the same view.
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