white nationalist

noun

plural white nationalists
: one of a group of militant white people who espouse white supremacy (see white supremacy sense 1) and advocate enforced racial segregation
… his vision for the community—an enclave where residents fly "racialist" banners, where they are able to import enough … white nationalists to take control of the town government …John Eligon
white nationalism noun
or less commonly White Nationalism
… a far right platform that includes white nationalism and opposition to Israel. Mike Sunnucks

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The lawsuit was first filed against the Eau Claire Area School District in 2022 by the Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty and America First Legal — the organization started by Trump’s new deputy chief of staff for policy and avowed white nationalist Stephen Miller. Mathew Rodriguez, Them, 10 Dec. 2024 Roach, as noted in his author bio at American Greatness, has also written for Taki’s Magazine, another paleoconservative blog that has hosted content from far-right figures like Proud Boys founder Gavin McInnes as well as white nationalists Jared Taylor and Richard Spencer. David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Sep. 2024 At the time, many white nationalists in the 1970s and 1980s were disillusioned by the U.S. failure to win the Vietnam War and wanted to exact a kind of revenge. Olivia B. Waxman, TIME, 6 Dec. 2024 Some of them were white nationalist and neo-Nazi accounts or accounts that repeatedly boost conspiracy theories. David Ingram, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024 See all Example Sentences for white nationalist 

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of white nationalist was in 1951

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“White nationalist.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/white%20nationalist. Accessed 16 Jan. 2025.

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