anti-white

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Adjective

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anti-white (comparative more anti-white, superlative most anti-white)

  1. Alternative spelling of antiwhite.
    • 2012, Benjamin Pogrund, Robert Sobukwe: How Can Man Die Better:
      No, Sobukwe replied, he was not anti-white but he was anti-white supremacy.
    • 2016, Liz Calvario, Indie Wire[1]
      White supremacists are calling for people to boycott “Rogue One: A Star Wars Story,” accusing the film of promoting an “anti-white agenda.”
    • 2021, Lawrence Glickman, The Atlantic[2]:
      As the civil-rights movement accelerated, claims of “anti-whiteness” emerged again. All manner of supposed provocations—the 1961 documentary Walk in My Shoes, which focused on the lives of Black Americans; the Kennedy administration; the Black Arts Theater of Harlem—were labeled “anti-white and pro-Negro.”