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

Examples of white nationalist in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Shane Sweeney, an influencer from Newfoundland who regularly posts white nationalist content on social media, is also very closely linked to Butler, regularly joining him in online discussions. —David Gilbert, WIRED, 10 Oct. 2024

The white nationalist ideology has inspired mass shootings. —Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 Oct. 2024

Rumble has been a magnet for others banned from mainstream social media, including white nationalist Nick Fuentes, whose videos sometimes appear on Rumble’s trending list. —David Ingram, NBC News, 20 Oct. 2024

And all that was before Musk—a citizen of South Africa, Canada, and the US—reactivated the accounts of conspiracy theorists and white nationalists, and began heavily pushing his own right-wing political narrative. —Andrew Couts, WIRED, 16 Sep. 2024

Word History

First Known Use

1951, in the meaning defined above