jook-sing

Borrowed from Cantonese 竹升 (zuk1 sing1). See jook-sing on Wikipedia.Wikipedia.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A Chinese person, especially a Cantonese person born in the USA or Canada, who has overly assimilated to Western culture and has little or no command of any Chinese language.

竹升

Overly assimilated Chinese living outside China


oreo

The young woman said, "Well, actually we do have one minority student."
The young man chimed in, "Yeah, but he's an oreo."
"An oreo?" I asked. "Please define the term oreo."
"You know," the young man said. "Black on the outside, and white in the middle."

2012, Walter B.J. Mitchell, Stories I Tell My High School English Students, page 78:


discriminate

en-verb

discriminate (third-person singular simple present discriminates, present participle discriminating, simple past and past participle discriminated)

discriminates (present singular third-person)
discriminating (participle present)
discriminated (participle past)
discriminated (past)

favor

antonym(s) of “make decisions based on prejudice”

From Latin discriminatus, past participle of discriminare (“to divide, separate, distinguish”), from discrimen (“a space between, division, separation, distinction”), from discerno (“to divide, separate, distinguish, discern”); see discern, discreet, discrete. Compare crime.

The law prohibits discriminating against people based on their skin color.

To treat or affect differently, depending on differences in traits.

(intransitive, construed with against) To make decisions harmful to (a person or group) based on prejudice.


Nazism

The ideology of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP), being a form of fascism characterised by Adolf Hitler's cult of personality, hate propaganda, white supremacy, extreme bigotry (especially antisemitism and racism), eugenics, mass violence, genocide, ethnonationalist territorial expansion (Lebensraum) and state capitalism.

nazizëm

the ideology of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party


Punic

From Latin Pūnicus, variant of Poenicus, from Poenus + -icus, from Ancient Greek Φοῖνιξ (Phoînix), from Mycenaean Greek 𐀡𐀛𐀑𐀍 (po-ni-ki-jo) under influence from φοινός (phoinós, “crimson red”) owing to its relation to Tyrian purple, apparently from or cognate with Egyptian fnḫw (“Asiatics, Semites”), f:n:x-w-V12:Z2. Equivalent to a modified Phoenician + -ic.


race baiting

The use of racially derisive language, actions, or other forms of communication in order to set people against each other, usually in the context of white and black people.


atheophobia

At many institutions, I have found atheophobia to be rampant among students; and religiophobia to be common among faculty.

2003 Spring, Robert J. Nash, “Inviting Atheists to the Table: A Modest Proposal for Higher Education”, in Religion & Education, volume 30, number 1, New York, →DOI, →ISSN:

Atheophobia leads to invisibility for many atheists, who find it is best to keep their nonbelief hidden for their own good.

2009 Spring, Kathleen M. Goodman with John A. Mueller, “Invisible, marginalized, and stigmatized: Understanding and addressing the needs of atheist students”, in New Directions for Student Services, number 125, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 55–63:

Atheophobia should be just as unacceptable as homophobia, anti-Semitism, or racism.

2011 January 25, Dan Barker, The Good Atheist: Living a Purpose-Filled Life Without God, Berkeley: Ulysses Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 42:

無神論恐怖症

むしんろんきょうふしょう


ableism

en-noun

ableism (countable and uncountable, plural ableisms)

→ Ukrainian: е́йблізм (éjblizm)

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From able + -ism, modelled on racism, sexism, etc.

Ableism is your ability to find reasons to push us aside to keeps us in cages, leave our struggles out of the history pages … pretend we never existed. Ableism is when you say I'm the only disabled friend you've ever had. Ableism is when you say that and still don't understand why we feel invisible. Ableism is when you think I don't have a disability because you can't see it.

2019, Michelle R. Nario-Redmond, Ableism: The Causes and Consequences of Disability Prejudice, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary on Historical Principles

Oxford University Press
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Discrimination against persons with disabilities in favor of those without.

اَلتَّمْيِيزُ ضِدَّ ٱلْمُعَاقِينَ

discrimination against persons with disabilities


Shoah

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From Hebrew שׁוֹאָה (šōʾā, “catastrophe”).

I never knew him, or any of my other relatives who died in the Shoah. But I would gladly dump every ounce of that gold into the ocean, just to give them a decent burial.

(history) The systematic mass murder of six million Jews perpetrated by Nazi Germany shortly before and during World War II.


shoneen

Borrowed from Irish Seoinín (“Johnny”), from Seán (“John, John Bull”) + -ín (diminutive suffix).

Good Father John O'Hart
In penal days rode out
To a shoneen who had free lands
And his own snipe and trout.

1889, W B Yeats, The Ballad of Father O'Hart:

So then the citizens begin talking about the Irish language and the corporation meeting and all to that and the shoneens that can’t speak their own language

(Ireland, derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of English society.


octoroon

Borrowed from Spanish octorón, compare quadroon from cuarterón (“quadroon”).

Quintoon: child of mustiphini and white male
Unspeakable: child of mustiphini and white woman
Octoroon: child of quintoon and white man
Unspeakable: child of quintoon and white woman

2005, Donald Harman Akenson, Irish History of Civilization, page 353:

(dated or historical) Someone having 1/64th black ancestry: the child of a quintoon and a white man.


blackface

blackface (countable and uncountable, plural blackfaces)

Soberano hit back at Instagram comments, writing, "This is not any form of blackface." But has since backtracked.

2019, Farah Andrews, “Filipina Actress Liza Soberano Slammed for Mel B 'Blackface'”, in The National News:

(uncountable) The practice in which a non-black person blackens their face using theatrical makeup in order to portray a caricature of a black person.

(countable) A sheep of the Scottish Blackface breed.

The laboratory procedure in the most important tests and methods is printed in blackface type for convenience of reference.

1917, Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Journal - Franklin Institute of the State of Pennsylvania, →OCLC:

(uncountable, countable, typography) Synonym of boldface.


autogynephilia

/ˌɔːtəʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

/ˌɔtoʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

/ˌɑtoʊˌɡaɪnəˈfɪli.ə/

Coordinate term: autoandrophilia

Charles Moser (2010) “Blanchard’s Autogynephilia Theory: A Critique”, in Journal of Homosexuality, volume 57, number 6, →DOI, pages 790–809: “If autogynephilia were a paraphilia, we would expect that MTFs would want estrogens to feminize themselves, but decline anti-androgens or report that they disliked the effect. This is contrary to the observation that MTFs request and like the effects of anti-androgens.”

gender identity disorder
gender identity disorder

transvestic fetishism
transvestic fetishism

In Ray Blanchard's transsexualism typology, the proposed paraphilic tendency of someone who is anatomically male to be sexually aroused by the thought of being a female, sometimes framed as a form of gender identity disorder or transvestic fetishism.


Schutzstaffel

Unadapted borrowing from German Schutzstaffel.

ubor

(historical) The internal security force of Nazi Germany; the SS.

Mühafizə dəstəsi

the internal security force of Nazi Germany


inverted

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(chemistry, of sugar) Having its polarization changed by hydrolysis; see invert sugar.

Among the Normans, everywhere, homosexuality was markedly prevalent; the spread of sodomy in France about the eleventh century is attributed to the Normans, and their coming seems to have rendered it at times almost fashionable, at all events at court. In England, William Rufus was undoubtedly inverted, as later on were Edward II, James I, and, perhaps, though not in so conspicuous a degree, William III.

1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, volume 2:

(dated, psychology) Homosexual, in terms of the sexual inversion theory.

conspiracy theories
conspiracy theory#Noun

(Internet slang, conspiracy theories, of a person) Assumed to be transgender, in the terms of transvestigation.


scientific racism

Racism presented as, or purported to be supported by science.


Jewish lightning

From the stereotype of Jews engaging in this practice.

According to Manchu the fire had forced all the families upstairs to get out, the fire department had closed down the bar for repairs. Manchu said the bar wasn't bad off but the Jew collected all he could for fire and water damage ¶ "You mean it wasn't no Jewish lightning."

1974, Francis A. J. Ianni, Black Mafia; Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime, New York, N.Y., : Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 133:

I can refute any charges that it was a case of 'Jewish lightning', but I admit that the fire did happen at the most opportune moment!

1992, James Edmist, The Sterling Years: Small-Arms and the Men, London: Leo Cooper, →ISBN, page 45:

The torching of overinsured buildings was so common that arson became known as "Jewish lightning." Forty-four percent of the arson cases reported by the New York Times in the 1890s were linked to Jews.

[1996, William Kleinknecht, The New Ethnic Mobs: The Changing Face of Organized Crime in America, New York, N.Y. […]: The Free Press, →ISBN, page 31:

The insurance companies, many of which were Jewish, referred to "Jewish lightning" when unfortunate fires burned down warehouses in the East End.

[1996 October 28, Andrew Ross, quoting John le Carré, “John le Carr”, in Salon.com, archived from the original on 2022-05-20:

The fire was a mysterious and tragic event upon which Mom is unwilling to elaborate. Was it a case of spontaneous combustion, perhaps due to poor wiring or improper storage of bulk dry goods? Or was it a case of "Jewish lightning" (a suspicious fire caused in order to collect the insurance money)? This is another family mystery left unsolved with all the individuals involved long gone.

2012, Jane Genende, Lost Tribe of the Andes: A Jewish-American Family's Struggle With Assimilation, Bloomington, I.N.: iUniverse, Inc., →ISBN, pages 20–21:

Why not burn down the place and take the insurance? A little Jewish lightning never hurt anyone.

2019 December 27, “Being Harley Quinn”, in Harley Quinn, season 1, episode 5, spoken by Golda (Rhea Perlman):

(now offensive) A fire which is deliberately started to collect insurance money.


Nuremberg

/ˈnjʊəɹəmbəɡ/

From German Nürnberg, from Medieval Latin Norinberga. The second element is from Berg, origins of the first element unclear.

The trial of Nazi criminals that took place there, after World War II.


racialism

en-noun

racialism (countable and uncountable, plural racialisms)

From racial + -ism. Coined in 1882 based on the older use of "race" as a synonym of "nation, tribe, ethnic group", later senses (from 1890) from the use of "race" for racial categories.

This is The Lie of North American Superiority — an assumption based mainly on our superior living standard. […] This Lie of Superiority, this ill-disguised racialism in us who are always denouncing racialism in other people, is more than an unpleasant breach of good manners. It has deep and evil effects upon the affairs of the world.

Racialism and ultra-nationalism are a major part of the fascist doctrine. We all recall the Hitler emphasis on the Aryan race and I think you can visualize for a moment the Nazi propagandist telling the German people, "You are superior!" Nobody argues with this. If someone confronts you and says, "You know, I am firmly convinced you are the superior type," you don't deny it. […] So the selling of racialism is not nearly as difficult as it might on the surface appear to be. Coupled with this racialism, the ultra-nationalism suggests that if a race is superior why then should it confine itself to the limited territory in which if finds itself.

1959 September 23, E. B. Ader, “Conflicting Political and Economic Systems”, in Naval War College Review, page 8:

Racism, the belief in the existence of different races and the belief that some races are superior to other races; policies or practices which promote the dominance of one or more races over other races.


Waffen-SS

Borrowed from German Waffen-SS, from Waffe (“weapon”) + SS.


heterosexist

From heterosex(ual) + -ist; modelled on sexist.


drapetomania

Coined in 1851 by Samuel A. Cartwright as a name for a supposed mental illness that caused black slaves to flee captivity. Ancient Greek δραπέτης (drapétēs, “runaway slave”) + μανία (manía, “madness”).

uder

To prevent the full-blown development of drapetomania, exhibited by the actual running away of the slave, whipping is recommended as medical therapy; in a revealing allusion to its historical origins, the treatment is called "whipping the devil out of them."

1987, Thomas Stephen Szasz, Insanity: The Idea and Its Consequences, →ISBN, page 307:

Over the years, psychiatrists have quite properly rejected many other "disorders" that reflected earlier cultural prejudices, such as drapetomania, lack of vaginal orgasm, childhood masturbation disorder, masochism, and nymphomania (Wakefield, 1992).

1996, Carole Wade, Carol Tavris, Psychology, →ISBN, page 560:

Cartwright opined that following proper medical advice prevented drapetomania and its symptom (running away): The recommended cure was to keep slaves in their "natural" position of submission while providing for their needs, along with whipping at the onset of the disorder.

2006, Yo Jackson, Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology, →ISBN, page 158:

Forbidding alcohol, eliminating visits to neighbors at night, and withholding adequate food, shelter, and clothing also were measures taken to prevent drapetomania.

2008, Frederick T. Leong, Encyclopedia of Counseling - Volume 2, →ISBN:

(historical) The desire of slaves to run away, viewed as a mental illness.

漂泊狂

One of these is a supposed form of mental disease, termed by him "Drapetomania, which, like a malady that cats are liable to, manifests itself by an irrestrainable propensity to run away."

I thought I was a hypochondriac because my friends said that I was showing unnecessary concern about my health. Thanks to Dr. Cartwright I now know that I am a diseased man. I suffer from the acute stages of a chronic disease: drapetomania. I have the obsessive desire to run toward freedom. You have the right to know that a diseased man is near you because, and I say this carefully, drapetomania is contagious, and I am glad about it. As a drapetomaniac, I belong at a Freedom Fund Banquet.

1989, David Pilgrim, Race relations "above the veil": speeches, essays, and other writings:

Mark declined and moved into the dark cavern. Strobes and smoke created curtains of imminent light. "You viced up Marky?" said Nick. Faking something close to drapetomania, ...

I still flee from my home to chase dreams. Sometimes I manage to elude capture and sometimes I do not. Is that Drapetomania? Is that Squircular? What do you call it? No results found for squircle. In 2005, for the first time, I wrote but never publicized my personal experience with Drapetomania (or Squircular, if you prefer) in an essalogue with a seven syllable title: An Actor's Tale In the Crazy House with Christ!

2010, Summer Hill Seven (Raymond Abdul-Alim Ákbar), Squircular!: An Actor's Tale, →ISBN, page 87:

(dated) an overwhelming urge to run away (from home, a bad situation, responsibility, etc.)


gauleiter

Borrowed from German Gauleiter, from Gau (“administrative division”) + Leiter (“leader”).

(historical) An official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany.

гаўля́йтар

an official in charge of a district of Nazi Germany


stormtrooper

A calque of German Sturmtruppen, from Sturm (“storm”) + Truppen (“troops”), equivalent to storm + trooper.

A member of the Sturmabteilung, a Nazi street militia.


double standard

en-noun

double standard (plural double standards)

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For example, when discussing relationships, she admitted that she believed in a "reverse double standard".

The situation where two groups or individuals are the same in pertinent ways, but one is condemned for it while the other is excused.

كَيْلٌ بِمِكْيالَيْنِ

the situation of groups one of which is excused from following a standard

A pair of monetary values, i.e. a gold standard and a silver standard, both of which are legal tender.


National Socialist

National Socialist (plural National Socialists)

Calque of German Nationalsozialist (noun) and nationalsozialistisch (adjective), respectively.

An adherent of National Socialism; a Nazi.


rankism

rankism (usually uncountable, plural rankisms)

/ˈɹæŋkˌɪzəm/

From rank + -ism, probably by analogy with words like racism and sexism. It was coined by American physicist, author and social reformer Robert Works Fuller (born 1936).

The grading system is behind most forms of overt rankism in the schools. Many people blame the school entrance examinations, saying that rankism cannot be eliminated as long as the so-called examination hell remains.

1975, Japan Interpreter, volumes 10–11, Tokyo: Nihon Shakai Shisō Kenkyūsho [Center for Japanese Social and Political Studies], →ISSN, →OCLC, page 80:

Rankisms cannot be merely legislated away by an authoritarian system, although legislative efforts can help because they introduce and solidify a third-party socio-cultural role that is watching, judging, and may take action.

2006 June 6, Stanford Silver, “Applied Conflict Psychology”, in Process Work and the Facilitation of Conflict (unpublished Ph.D. dissertation), Cincinnati, Oh.: Union Institute & University, →OCLC, page 123:

Rankism is a degrading assertion of rank. It's what's happening when a person, a group, or nation acts as if it outranks another and attempts to demean, humiliate, or exploit it.

2012 August 12, Robert Fuller, “Rankism: The poison that destroys relationships”, in The Huffington Post, archived from the original on 2015-03-16:

Abuse, discrimination, or exploitation based on rank.


racialist

1910 (noun), 1917 (adjective). racial + -ist, from older racialism (1882).


anti-homosexualism

I write 'homosexuality ' with some trepidation, since anti-homosexualism is a prejudice as discreditable as anti-semitism; and I am not the late Roy Campbell. Recent legislation, though, makes a difference, lightening matters for critics, and biographers as well. If a heterosexual subject went markedly after women, his biographer will usually say so. It may be relevant; and It may be no less relevant if a subject of a different constitution went 'markedly after men.

Such terrors about people with aids are only a blurred line away from anti-homosexualism. Violence against homosexuals has risen.

[R]ealize that racism, sexism, and anti-homosexual attitudes and actions are not simply problems for those on the receiving end but problems for everyone. Racism is not only a black problem, it is also a white problem with consequences for the entire society. Sexism is not only a women's problem, but a men's problem as well, with consequences for the entire society. Anti-homosexualism likewise is not simply a gay and lesbian problem, but a problem for the entire society.

1999, Edward E. Sampson, Dealing with Differences: An Introduction to the Social Psychology of Prejudice (Harcourt College Pub)

(rare, somewhat dated) Homophobia; prejudice against homosexual (gay) people.


removalist

2005, Chris Cooper, Kym Weatherly (editor), Behind the Private Eye: Surveillance Tales & Techniques, self published, Australia, page 63,
It was nearly two hours before there was any further movement, but our wait was richly rewarded as the old Holden returned, together with a large removalist truck.

2006, Allison Burnett, The House Beautiful: A Novel of High Ideals, Low Morals, and Lower Rent, Avalon Publishing, US, page 96,
I had wanted to spend the previous night at Pip′s place, so that I could be there when the removalists arrived, but Pip nixed the plan, claiming that my presence would distract him from “pack-pack.”

2011, James Adonis, Corporate Punishment: Smashing the Management Clichs for Leaders in a New World, John Wiley & Sons Australia, page 8,
She moved her furniture across without a whimper or a hint of worry. I, on the other hand, hired a removalist just to take my bed from one bedroom to the other.

2011, Tim Bonyhady, Good Living Street, Allen & Unwin, Australia, page 1,
Nineteen thirty-eight was a good year to be a removalist in Vienna. As tens of thousands fled the city following the German annexation of Austria, the Nazis seized their businesses, requiring them to pay punitive departure taxes, prevented them from converting their remaining money into foreign currency and stole much of their art. The refudees were usually able to leave with their other household goods, however, because the Nazis were eager to maintain the pretence that Austria′s Jews were leaving voluntarily, and wanted other countries to take them. The result was a surge in demand for removalists in a city where it was common to rent the same apartment for life.

“Three years on, it was time to return home, and the removalists were going through our rooms at lightning speed.”

2020, Kirsty Needham, “The long arm of authoritarian China reached into my seven-year-old’s bedroom”, in The Sydney Morning Herald:

(chiefly Australia) A person or company who specialises in domestic removals, that is, the transportation of household contents when moving house.


heightism

Coordinate term: weightism

It is obvious that the dimensions of inequality could be extended to include a great many differences such as heightism where people who are taller are superior to people who are shorter, and so forth.

1976, Robert Marsh Kloss, Ron E. Roberts, Dean S. Dorn, Sociology with a Human Face: Sociology as If People Mattered:

There might be reinforcement of already harmful social evils such as heightism and racism.

2001, James C. Peterson, Genetic Turning Points: The Ethics of Human Genetic Intervention:

Given this background, how can dwarfs, beset by beautyism, heightism, and a succession of slights, move toward positive body images and self-esteem?

2005, Betty M. Adelson, The Lives of Dwarfs: Their Journey from Public Curiosity Toward Social Liberation:

(informal) A prejudiced attitude about human height that often results in discrimination, based on the belief that unusually short or tall people are inferior and undesirable.


Hitlerish

en-adj

Hitlerish (comparative more Hitlerish, superlative most Hitlerish)

more Hitlerish (comparative)
most Hitlerish (superlative)


frou-frou

frou-frou (comparative more frou-frou, superlative most frou-frou)

more frou-frou (comparative)
most frou-frou (superlative)

Borrowed from French frou-frou, an onomatopoeia.

They ate in a frou-frou restaurant at the top of a skyscraper.

Kinda like a frou-frou dessert at a chichi restaurant, restaurant.

2009 September 1, Michael Chapman; Matthew Chapman, “Strong Bad Email #204: dictionary”, in Homestar Runner, spoken by Strong Bad (Matthew Chapman):

This is a column for a Sunday paper, designed to be absorbed at leisure, over coffee and frou-frou pastries, at around noon.

2012 June 30, Miranda Sawyer, “Rewind radio: Love Love Love Like the Beatles; Is It Worth It?; 6-Love-6”, in The Observer, →ISSN:

For the price of a frou-frou Starbucks drink, a Netflix subscriber could binge this content ad nauseam without suffering through a single commercial – the ideal home viewing experience.

2023 January 21, Andrew Lawrence, “Netflix’s Reed Hastings changed the way we watch TV – for better or for worse”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

Highly ornamented, overly elaborate; excessively girly.


classism

en-noun

classism (usually uncountable, plural classisms)

Discrimination or prejudice that is based on social class, especially against those of lower social class.


reverse discrimination

In one instance, Title VII authorizes reverse discrimination. The act gives employers ranging from Minnesota wild-rice farmers to New Mexico electronics manufacturers the option of hiring only American Indians.

1965 July 9, “Statutes: Sex & VII”, in Time:

Alan Bakke at the University of California At Davis Medical School, Karen Hopwood at the law school of the University of Texas, and Jennifer Gratz at the University of Michigan all have argued successfully in court that they were the victims of reverse discrimination because blacks were given preferential treatment in the admissions process at these schools.

2002, “Why Affirmative Action Does Little Harm to White Students”, in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, number 36, page 21:

(law, ethics, public policy) The policy or practice of discriminating against members of a designated group which has in the past unfairly received preferential treatment in social, legal, educational, or employment situations, with the intention of benefiting one or more other groups (such as racial, disabled, or gender groups) that have previously been discriminated against.

逆向歧視 /逆向歧视

advantaging minority groups who have traditionally been discriminated


white supremacist

en-adj

white supremacist (comparative more white supremacist, superlative most white supremacist)

more white supremacist (comparative)
most white supremacist (superlative)

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Even a film like Do the Right Thing is a very white supremacist film.

2007, Haile Gerima, Why We Make Movies, page 200:


white supremacist

en-noun

white supremacist (plural white supremacists)

At the urging of advisers, he then condemned white supremacists and neo-Nazis but almost immediately told aides, “That was the biggest fucking mistake I’ve made” and the “worst speech I’ve ever given,” according to Woodward’s account.

2018 September 4, Philip Rucker, Robert Costa, “Bob Woodward’s new book reveals a ‘nervous breakdown’ of Trump’s presidency”, in The Washington Post:

An advocate of white supremacy, a person who believes that the white race is inherently superior to other races and that white people should have control over people of other races.


white supremacy

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Among Southern whites, the defence of slavery slid into a defence of white supremacy, since that was a useful way to unite the white population behind a coherent ideology; most Southerners did not actually own slaves, and had no necessary interest in defending that institution alone.

2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 909:

The ideology which holds that the white race is superior to all others.

A situation in which white people are privileged over other people in society.


white man's burden

From the poem The White Man's Burden (published 1899) by Rudyard Kipling.

Uncle Sam has found his box of tricks heavy, and is having a whiff before going on with his white man's burden to the end.

1902 January 2, The Evening Telegraph, Charters Towers, page 3, column 2:

Germany's appearance as a colonizing power in Africa was greeted in no unfriendly spirit by either France or Great Britain. Each of the latter felt that it was already possessed of about all it could comfortably look after, and both realized that another shoulder under "The White Man's Burden" in the Dark Continent might make the load easier for all.

1915 October 6, Lewis Ransome Freeman, “Germany's Exit From Africa”, in The World's Work, volume XXX:

So into at least one state troops poured, a battalion of decent National Service lads, to continue to carry, posthumously as it must be supposed, the White Man's Burden.

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 609:

The supposed responsibility of European people to govern and care for their colonial subjects.


Plastic Paddy

From the sense of plastic as fake, ersatz, inauthentic, etc. and Paddy (“Patrick”) as a generic name for any Irish man.

(derogatory, ethnic slur) An Irish person considered to be inauthentically Irish, especially (UK) recent Irish arrivals to London.


discriminatory

en-adj

discriminatory (comparative more discriminatory, superlative most discriminatory)

more discriminatory (comparative)
most discriminatory (superlative)

/dɪsˈkɹɪmɪnəˌtɔɹi/

Of or pertaining to discrimination (in all senses).


untouchable

Synonym of outcast: a person excluded from society.

(India) A member of the lowest and most discriminated caste in traditional Indian society.

A law enforcement agent immune to intimidation, bribery, or seduction.


griffe

The primary use of this is to give the column a broader base and to diminish the amount of the cutting away of the solid stone. The griffe, however, is often used for elaborate ornamentation, being carved into vegetable or even animal form.

2013, Russell Sturgis, Francis A. Davis, Sturgis' Illustrated Dictionary of Architecture and Building: An Unabridged Reprint of the 1901-2 Edition, Courier Corporation, →ISBN, page 323:

A claw-like ornament at the base of a column.


griffe

From Cajun French (in period American English usage) and from general French griffe (in reference to such people in e.g. Haiti), perhaps from (American) Spanish grifo (supposedly "curly-haired").

Saint-Domingue's complex system of racial classification allowed for no fewer than eight “mixed” racial parental combinations that could produce a griffe, as infamously calculated by Moreau.

2017, Terry Rey, The Priest and the Prophetess: Abbé Ouvière, Romaine Rivière, and the Revolutionary Atlantic World, Oxford University Press, →ISBN:

(chiefly US, dialectal, dated or historical) A person of mixed (black and white) race, especially the offspring of a mulatto (person of mixed black and white ancestry) and a person of fully black ancestry.


sexualism

en-noun

sexualism (usually uncountable, plural sexualisms)

We find analogous phenomena in this Medical sexualism. Our readers cannot but have been struck with the sentiments of " One Cognisant of the Facts ” in defence of a daughter being taught to pass the catheter for her own father. ...Grant the principle that all the natural instincts of humanity in its higher social development may be set aside, provided the object be good in the eyes of the sexualist, and any immorality may be— indeed is —clothed with a mantle of purity.

A suggestion I have for the University is to highlight more the close link between sexism and sexualism (my personal word for discrimination based on sexuality).

1991, From Invisibility to Inclusion: Opening the Doors for Lesbians and Gay Men at the University of Michigan:

Oh my. Sexism ("bitch"), sexualism ("gay") and racism ("gooks") all in just two lines.

2001 June 20, Douglas Reay, “BLIZZARD FUCK YOU”, in alt.games.diablo (Usenet):

“Ours is a sexualist society,” Evan began. “In particular, we have come to believe in constraints on the love which can exist between women and women, and men and men. Unlike other cultures and other times, we have made the gender of our beloved, and not the quality of the love, the overriding issue. This sexualism is pervasive and insidious.”

2015 -, Marc Solomon, Winning Marriage, →ISBN:

The belief that one set of sexual behaviors is intrinsically superior to another set of sexual behaviors, or prejudice and discrimination based on that belief.


Hitlerism

From Hitler + -ism, named after German politician Adolf Hitler (1889-1945).

The political philosophy and practices of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party.


Gleichschaltung

Gleichschaltung (countable and uncountable, plural Gleichschaltungs)

Unadapted borrowing from German Gleichschaltung (“synchronisation”).

ubor

Far less identified with the party than the old Freikorps (anticommunist vigilante groups active just after World War I) mercenaries, the new element saw in the SS the true elite organization of the Nazi regime, and did not hesitate to attempt Gleichschaltungs within the Gleichschaltung, that is, to have the SS take over already Nazified organizations.

1973, Dietrich Orlow, The History of the Nazi Party: 1933–1945, volume 2, Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, →ISBN, page 181:

Consequently, Croatia’s new leaders have lost little time in purging these last outposts of the old regime. In the name of democracy and human rights, all the media will henceforth be sympathetic to the new government, a process of Gleichschaltung that is being cheered on by the West.

2000 April 15, John Laughland, “Full circle for communism: Under EU plan, Croatia is starting to resemble old communist Yugoslavia”, in The Gazette, Montreal, page B5:

So what we have today is a university whose uniqueness is to be attacked and destroyed so that it falls in line where a gleichschaltung is achieved, a non dissenting institution with dead pan faces, with caste identities or communal hatred pervasive, unquestioning students roaming around writing meaningless objective type exams for different testing services.

2017 February 10, Rakesh Batabyal, “Casteism and communalism are delegitimising the institutions that have built JNU”, in Hindustan Times:

The forced standardization of political and social institutions under an authoritarian regime, originally with reference to Nazi Germany.


snoot

From Scots snoot, snout (“snout”), from Middle English snowte, from Middle Dutch snute; ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snūt, from Proto-Germanic *snūtaz. Doublet of snout.

A language pedant or snob; one who practices linguistic elitism.


race card

en-verb

race card (third-person singular simple present race cards, present participle race carding, simple past and past participle race carded)

race cards (present singular third-person)
race carding (participle present)
race carded (participle past)
race carded (past)

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To invoke race in a discussion in order to gain sympathy or an advantage in that discussion.


phallocentrism

en-noun

phallocentrism (usually uncountable, plural phallocentrisms)

(figuratively) Focus on a male point of view.

fal·locentrisme

Focus on the phallus or on a male point of view.


play the race card

en-verb

play the race card (third-person singular simple present plays the race card, present participle playing the race card, simple past and past participle played the race card)

plays the race card (present singular third-person)
playing the race card (participle present)
played the race card (participle past)
played the race card (past)

The defense played the race card, but Ito let them.

1997, Mark Fuhrman, Murder in Brentwood, page 153:

Moreover, some leaders on both sides of any racial divide love to play the race card to keep themselves in power.

2002, Donald A. Carson, Love in Hard Places, page 94:

White man: White privilege? Now you're just playing the race card.
Clio: No. I'm not "playing the race card". Because racism isn't a card game to me. It can get me killed or jailed... threaten my livelihood. I don't have the privilege to treat it like a game.
White man: Oooo well played!

2015 May 15, Tatsuya Ishida, “Black Lives 3”, in Sinfest:

(idiomatic, often derogatory) To assert that race or racism is involved in a situation, especially in order to exploit racist or antiracist attitudes.


West Briton

—Well, I'm ashamed of you, said Miss Ivors frankly. To say you'd write for a rag like that. I didn't think you were a West Briton.

(Ireland, derogatory) An Irish person considered to be excessively Anglophile, an Irish person who acts English or desires to be part of British society.


Amerikkka

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In Amerikkka, this movement is evident from efforts to control the institutions serving and located within Black communities.

1970 July, “White Ethics and Black Power: The Emergence of the West Side Organization”, in Black World/Negro Digest, volume 19, number 9, page 83:

We have said […] that one of the greatest dangers of the continuance of the Vietnam war was that […] it would lead to an inevitable rise of fascism at home. Now that the U.S. is spreading the aggression in Indo-China the danger is coming icily close. The Black Panthers believe this is already a Fascist Amerikkka; we can understand this view from the black ghetto. We happen to hold that many Americans will resist, and there may be a Civil War in which thousands, if not millions, will die. Feeling thus, it is hard to get enthused about cleaning up the Hudson. There is a strong suspicion that Earth Day was a diversion, for at that very moment plans were being put in operation in Washington to spread death and destruction to Cambodia.

1970 June, Broadside, volume 107, page 7:

And get mad, mad 'cause I'm the nigga that flaunt it / AmeriKKKa’s Most Wanted

1990, “AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted”, in AmeriKKKa's Most Wanted, performed by Ice Cube:

[…] it's so obscene and Amerikkka and greedy, but pleasing to the eye […]

2002, Courtney X, Lasting Visions, page 202:

Ben Caldwell recalls the scene as follows:
Life as we know it is about to change
I smell it within the air the weather is getting strange
Drugged up sedated and numb from the pain
The sickness in Amerikkka has spread to her brain [...]

2009, Marcyliena H. Morgan, The real hiphop: battling for knowledge, power, and respect, page 161:

United States of America
United States of America

(derogatory slang) The United States of America. Generally used in depicting the country as fascist or racist.


male chauvinist

en-noun

male chauvinist (plural male chauvinists)


male chauvinism

A belief in the innate superiority of men over women.


Gestapo

/ɡɛˈstɑːpəʊ/

/ɡəˈʃtɑːpəʊ/

Unadapted borrowing from German Gestapo, a contraction of Geheime Staatspolizei (“secret state police”).

Fortunately this was Spain and not Germany. The Spanish secret police had some of the spirit of the Gestapo, but not much of its competence.

1938 April, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter XIII, in Homage to Catalonia, London: Secker & Warburg, →OCLC, page 227:

(historical, Nazism) The secret police of Nazi Germany.


brownbagger

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(US, colloquial, derogatory) Synonym of butterface.


Hitlerian

en-adj

Hitlerian (comparative more Hitlerian, superlative most Hitlerian)

more Hitlerian (comparative)
most Hitlerian (superlative)

of Hitlerian proportions

[He had] an almost Hitlerian cowlick on his pale brow.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, →OCLC, part 2, page 190:

Cambodia was subjected to a genocide of Hitlerian proportions.

1987 May, “Playboy Interview: Prince Norodom Sihanouk”, in Playboy, volume 34, number 5, Chicago, Illinois: Hugh M. Hefner, →ISSN, page 61, column 3:

Unable to contain his excitement, Foyʼs voice rose two octaves and took on a Hitlerian fervor.

2015, Paul Beatty, The Sellout, Oneworld Publications (2016), page 217:

War is war — but we need to understand how wrong it is to see the temporary triumph of fascist villainy as the destruction, once and for all, of the German people and the inauguration of an eternal kingdom of Hitlerian darkness.

2019, Vasily Grossman, translated by Robert Chandler and Yury Bit-Yunan, Stalingrad, page 220:

Hitlerian occupation authorities had been preparing action against Polish underground very carefully.

2024 December 27 (last accessed), Ewelina Pawelic, “Nazi’s reprisals on civilians: Executions in Karolin and Kazanów on 18th March 1942”, in Regional Museum in Zwolen:

Of, relating to, or resembling Hitler (the German chancellor) or his actions.


Hitlerian

Since a German Communist state existed, a state peaceful and democratic by definition, it became more difficult to speak of crimes committed by Germans in general. Poles were confronted with a kind of "Marxization" of the German problem that had to be resolved in terms of classes: in the east were the good Germans because they were progressive; in the west, the bad Germsans, reactionaries, heirs of Nazism, even more-or-less camouflaged Hitlerians.

2004, Henry Rousso, Richard Joseph Golsan, Stalinism and Nazism: history and memory compared, page 247:


heteronormative

heteronormative (comparative more heteronormative, superlative most heteronormative)

more heteronormative (comparative)
most heteronormative (superlative)

Much of the language used when discussing wedding planning is heteronormative, which can alienate homosexual couples.

This suggests both that film studies can be heteronormative even when it is analyzing homosexual representations and that close textual analysis is itself structured by heterosexual presumptions and assumptions.

1997 Summer, John Champagne, ““Stop Reading Films!”: Film Studies, Close Analysis, and Gay Pornography”, in Cinema Journal, volume 36, number 4, →ISSN, →JSTOR, page 82:

In the same way, homosexuality and bisexuality will always be seen as problematic in heteronormative organizations.

1998 February 28, Ruth Holliday, “Philadelphia: AIDS, Representation, Organization”, in John Hassard, Ruth Holliday, editors, Organization-Representation: Work and Organizations in Popular Culture, SAGE, →ISBN, →OL, page 102:

Of or pertaining to the practices and institutions that privilege or value heterosexuality, heterosexual relationships, and traditional gender roles as fundamental and "natural" within society.


Japanophobia

Perhaps this is one of the reasons of their Japanophobia. But if Japan became the ally of France, all this fear and suspicion of Japan would disappear, ...

1906, Edward Albert Bell, These meddlesome attorneys:

This would require discarding the extreme Japanophobia that characterises the so-called “revisionists” who are really “regressionists” twice over.

1999, Jagdish Bhagwati et.al., Trading Blocs: Alternative Approaches to Analyzing Preferential Trade Agreements:

A fear or hate of Japan and Japanese people or culture.


globalist

Coordinate term: continentalist

(historiography) One who believes that Adolf Hitler intended to extend the Third Reich beyond the continent of Europe.


groomer

Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia declared that "communist groomers" wanted to "allow a for-profit medical industry to chop off these confused children's genitals."

2022 December 10, Maggie Astor, “Transgender Americans Feel Under Siege as Political Vitriol Rises”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"Sooo...the groomers are calling anti-groomers 'dragphobes' now... got it," conservative comedian Tim Young posted.

2022 December 16, Andrew Mark Miller, “LGBT group warns 'dragphobia' is on the rise, conservatives blast post on Twitter”, in Fox News, archived from the original on 2022-12-22:

In December, far right groups including the Patriot Front and Proud Boys contributed to the cancellation of an Ohio drag storytime event. Many demonstrators showed up armed, while others held up signs with slogans like: "Groomers not welcome" and "Groomers are Child Abusers."

2022 December 21, Andrew Davis, “Drag queens take on Tennessee bill seeking to restrict their performances”, in NBC News, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

"It seems to be essentially a sort of pedophilic, predatory farm system that the groomers have set up," Walsh said.

2022 December 21, Anya Zoledziowski, “How 2022 Became the Year Trans Hate Went Mainstream”, in VICE, archived from the original on 2022-12-27:

After his takeover, use of the N-word increased by 202 percent; the use of homophobic, misogynist, and transphobic slurs went up at double-digit rates; the use of the slur groomer has increased exponentially.

[2022 December 23, Annie Lowrey, “Why Is Elon Musk Lighting Billions of Dollars on Fire?”, in The Atlantic, archived from the original on 2022-12-26:

By the way, the buried lede of this is that 60 percent of this school board is LGBT, is gay. The question is, do Christians run for school boards as much as the LGBT community does? No. As I said yesterday, which is groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. So, they go serve on school boards. And they go do drag queens. And they do all this other sort of disgusting nauseating stuff.

2023 March 3, Charlie Kirk, quotee, “Charlie Kirk: "Groomers can't reproduce, so instead they recruit. They go serve on school boards."”, in Media Matters, archived from the original on 2023-03-04:

Attacks against these librarians and administrative employees started to multiply over a year ago when a new Facebook group called Two Moms and Some Books was born. “I think the lowest point, at least for me, is when they started calling us groomers,” said a current librarian who we will call Avery. “That’s not really a word you throw around to people, even people you don’t like.”

2024 May 8, Faith Bugenhagen, “Librarians Under Siege in Montgomery County?”, in Houston Press:

(alt-right, derogatory, offensive, anti-LGBTQ slur) An individual, particularly an LGBT person or drag queen, framed as a predator or threat to children; in particular, someone who makes children aware of LGBT people or drag, from the perspective of those who consider this to be sexual.


Sturmabteilung

A paramilitary division under the German Nazi Party, operating from 1921 until being disbanded in 1934.


all cats are grey in the dark

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Calque of French la nuit, tous les chats sont gris (“at night, all cats are grey”), sometimes understood with vulgar reference to secondary senses of cat and pussy.

calque

[Of a widow:] And to make carnall appetite content,
To take lacke of beautie but as an eye ſore.
The fayre and the foule, by darke are lyke ſtore.
When all candels be out, all cats be grey,
All thingis are then of one colour, as who ſey.
And this prouerbe ſaith, for quenching hot deſyre,
Foule water as ſoone as fayre, will quenche hot fyre.

1562, John Heywood, A Dialogue Conteynyng the Number of the Effectuall Proverbes in the Englishe Tounge..., page 10:

‘When all candles be out all catts be gray:’
This none but careless leachers will say.

1611, John Davies, "Vpon Englishe Prouerbs", Scourge of Folly, §387

There's as good Bread bak'd here as in France, and Joan’s as good as my Lady in the Dark. In the Night all Cats are grey. Unhappy's he that wants his Breakfaſt at Two in the Afternoon... Sancho’s proverbial aphoriſms, and the ſimple Waiting-Woman's Comment upon the Text, were no ſmall Diverſion to the Dutcheſs.

1719, Peter Motteux & al. translating Miguel de Cervantes as The History of the Renowed Don Quixote de la Mancha, Vol. III, p. 307

The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the Neck; then the Breast and Arms; the lower Parts continuing to the last as plump as ever: So that covering all above with a Basket, and regarding only what is below the Girdle, it is impossible of two Women to know an old from a young one. And as in the dark all Cats are grey, the Pleasure of corporal Enjoyment with an old Woman is at least equal, and frequently superior, every Knack being by Practice capable of Improvement.

1745 June 25, Benjamin Franklin, "Advice to a Friend on Choosing a Mistress"

... at laft [King Croquignolet] gained intelligence of a famous wizard in the land of Gotham, a very prodigy of ſcience, to whom the world is indebted for old Robin's Almanack, the Court Calendar, the Attorney's Vade-Mecum, the Lady's Diary, and the Gentleman's Magazine... He firſt made known to mankind that after a ſtorm comes a calm; that it is day when the ſun is riſen; that dead men tell no tales; that ſhops ſhut are a ſure ſign of Sunday; that all cats are grey in the dark; that as ſoon as the ſun is ſet, there are many beaſts in the ſhade.

1796, "R.C." translating Marguerite de Lubert as Princess Coquedoeuf and Prince Bonbon: A History..., p. 8

However—the Frenchman's a practical man... He's trained to spot the redeeming graces as adroitly as a highly bred pig sniffs truffles. And faced with the homeliest dame he'll work over her until he can say, "Yes—she's certainly homely, but she has 'delightful ears'"; or "and exciting back to her neck"; or "provocative biceps." And the worst he cares to admit about any woman is "Yes, she is very ugly, but she has 'something' (Elle a quelque chose)." And if you get him in a cynical but wholesome mood he'll indicate that after all, "All cats are grey at night!"

1937, "They Order It Better in France", Esquire, Vol. 8, No. 3, p. 209

In one poem, unjustly attributed to Voltaire, the regent was accused of conducting an affaire with his eldest daughter, the Duchesse de Berry, which seems to have been true. The libertine regent loved women, but none more than his remarkable mother Liselotte, and it was to her that he uttered the famous rebuke when she complained he chose such ugly mistresses: "Bah! Mama, all cats look gray in the dark!"

1991, Marie-Christine Anna Agnes Hedwig Ida von Reibnitz, Cupid and the King, p. 56

"All Japanese look alike" is the racist counterpart to the sexist "In the dark, all cats are gray."

2011, Wendy Doniger, The Uninvited Spider, page 31:

(UK, sometimes vulgar and offensive) Sex is enjoyable regardless of the physical attractiveness or social station of one's partner.

dans la nuit, tous les chats sont gris (Cajun)

en tiempos de guerra cualquier agujero es trinchera

นารีงามสรรพเมื่อดับเทียน (naa-ree ngaam sàp mêua dàp tian, literally “women are beautiful when candles are extinguished”)


sanism

From sane + -ism, by analogy with racism and sexism.

Behaviorists, social scientists, and legal scholars must begin to develop research agendas so as to (1) determine and assess the ultimate impact of sanism, (2) better understand how social science data is manipulated to serve sanist ends, […]

2002, Michael L. Perlin, Mental disability law: civil and criminal, volume 1, page 528:

Discrimination and oppression against people who have, or who are labelled or perceived as having, a mental illness.


weightism

Coordinate term: sizeism

Prejudice or discrimination based on body weight, usually in the form of bias against high weight (fattism or fatphobia).


Nazi Germany

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(historical) Germany under the regime of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party (from 1933 to 1945).


biphobia

/ˈbaɪˌfəʊbiːə/


Islamophobia

en-noun

Islamophobia (usually uncountable, plural Islamophobias)

From Islamo- + -phobia. Attested since the 1920s, but popularized by a 1976 article by Georges Chahati Anawati.


Anschluss

From German Anschluss (“annexation”) (formerly Anschluß), from anschließen (“to join, unite”).

‘Some of us students protested against the Anschluss.’

1941, W Somerset Maugham, Up at the Villa, Vintage, published 2004, page 44:

Riane Eisler was born in Vienna in 1931. After the German Anschluss of Austria she fled with her family, first to Cuba and then to the U.S.

1988 December 11, John Kyper, “The 'Truth' Of Male-Dominated Social Science”, in Gay Community News, volume 16, number 22, page 8:

Anton Kuh […] was one of the Viennese coffee-house wits whose mastery of the brief critical essay reached its apotheosis in the last nervous years before the Anschluss.

(historical) Political annexation, specifically that of Austria into Nazi Germany in 1938.

آنْشْلُوس

the annexation of Austria into Germany in 1938 or an analogy


klansman

Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name

1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:

The fact that nobody foresaw that Chill would blossom into a klansman does not alter the fact that the klansman is one of the flowers of our democracy.

1900, Albert Bushnell Hart with John Gould Curtis, American History Told by Contemporaries, page 851:

Alternative letter-case form of Klansman


Untermensch

Unadapted borrowing from German Untermensch.

ubor

His orders are clear and concise – the Scots are viewed as untermenschen and are to be treated accordingly.

2009, John Sadler, Glencoe, Amberley, published 2009, page 19:

(derogatory, especially Nazism) An inferior person; a subhuman, especially in Nazi racial hierarchy.


transgendered

en-adj

transgendered (comparative more transgendered, superlative most transgendered)

more transgendered (comparative)
most transgendered (superlative)

RAQUEL WELCH (left), moviedom's sex queen soon to be seen as the heroine/hero of Gore Vidal's transgendered "Myra Breckinridge," will be featured in her first television special at 8 p.m. today on CBS.

1970 April 26, “Raquel Welch”, in TV Guide, archived from the original on 2012-06-04:

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Transgender; denoting or relating to a person whose gender identity does not correspond with their sex assigned at birth.


Klan

The soldiers made arrests right and left, swearing to wipe out the Klan if they had to put every white man in Atlanta in jail.

1936 June 30, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →OCLC; republished New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, 1944, →OCLC, part IV, page 745:

I ain't in the Klan, but I brought my hood with me

2005, “We Major”, in Late Registration, performed by Kanye West ft. Really Doe and Nas:


mentalism

en-noun

mentalism (countable and uncountable, plural mentalisms)

The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness.

Activities such as mind-reading, especially by performers.

The U.S. military's bombing of a Grenadan mental hospital struck me as significant in the type of target selected. […] Hearing accounts of this atrocity against Grenadan mental patients underscored for me the very real connections between imperialism, racism, and mentalism.

1983 December 3, anonymous author, “"Mental Patients" Are People”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 20, page 3:

Oppression on the basis of neurological type or perceived intelligence.


DWB

A play on DWI (“driving while intoxicated”).

jill We [Jill and her husband James] call it, "Driving While Black." We have a . . . nice car. So we got pulled over for a DWB. . . .

1995, Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri A. Karis, Richard D. Powell, Multiracial Couples: Black and White Voices (Understanding Families), SAGE Publications, →ISBN, page 147:

Initialism of driving while black (or brown): a sarcastic reference to racial profiling by police investigating driving offences.


speciesism

Coined by British animal rights advocate Richard D. Ryder in 1970 from species + -ism.

coinage

Such is the breathtaking speciesism of our Christian-inspired attitudes, the abortion of a single human zygote (most of them are destined to be spontaneously aborted anyway) can arouse more moral solicitude and righteous indignation than the vivisection of any number of intelligent adult chimpanzees

1996 [1986], Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker, New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., →ISBN:

This human chauvinism is one form of a general type of discrimination known as speciesism. What is speciesism? Think of racism. The term “speciesism” has been strategically used by animal rights activists from the 1970s onward precisely […]

2013, John Huss, Planet of the Apes and Philosophy: Great Apes Think Alike, Open Court, →ISBN, page 84:

Sometimes speciesism is also used to describe a positive rather than a negative attitude as when dolphins are alleged to have rescued humans from danger while ignoring other species in peril.

2017, Richard D. Ryder, Speciesism, Painism and Happiness: A Morality for the Twenty-First Century, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN:

(philosophy, ethics) An ethical stance that assigns different worth or rights to beings on the basis of their species membership, such as assigning greater rights to human beings than to other animals.


bantustan

From a Bantu language (ultimately from Proto-Bantu *bantʊ̀ (“people”)) + -stan (“home of”, suffix of Persian origin), after place names such as Hindustan.

affix

(originally South Africa, historical) Any of ten former territories defined as homelands for black South Africans under apartheid policy

bantoestan

territory defined as a homeland for black South Africans


trad

en-noun

trad (countable and uncountable, plural trads)

Traditional climbing
traditional climbing


troon

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *terh₂-der.
Proto-Italic *trānts
Latin trāns
Latin trans-bor.
English trans-
Proto-Indo-European *ǵenh₁-
Proto-Indo-European *-os
Proto-Indo-European *ǵénh₁os
Latin genus
Old French gendrebor.
Middle English gendre
English gender
English transgenderblend.
Proto-Indo-European *dʰeǵʰ-
Proto-Indo-European *-ōm
Proto-Indo-European *dʰéǵʰōm
Proto-Indo-European *-ō
Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰmṓ
Proto-Germanic *gumô
Proto-West Germanic *gumō
Old English guma
Middle English gone?
English gooney
English goonblend.
English troon
Blend of transgender + goon (“member of Something Awful”). Coined in the comedy website and internet forum Something Awful in the late 2000s.

etymon

transgender>having a gender different from one's assigned sex

blend

goon<t:member of Something Awful><id:member of Something Awful>

Coordinate term: pooner

Good Woke Boys pretending like they didn't obsessively post "troons are mentally ill" for 5 years is my favorite* part of twitter

2016 September 19, @uchimatador, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

When the troons speak about ‘gender neutral spaces’ ALWAYS maintain they are promoting unisex spaces.

2020 August 29, @fifyfomum, Twitter, archived from the original on 2020-08-29:

how do I wear skirts without coming off like a troon twitter no-fashion-sense transbian

2021 October 26, @coolestrogen, Twitter, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

(anti-LGBTQ slur, Internet slang, derogatory, offensive) A transgender person; most commonly, a trans woman.


heteronormativity

en-noun

heteronormativity (countable and uncountable, plural heteronormativities)

The assumption that all human beings are either male or female in both sex and gender, and that sexual and romantic attraction and activity only occurs, or is only normal, between people of different sexes.


en:12th man (football)
en:Aryan Brotherhood

(neo-Nazism) Alphanumeric code for "AB", referring to the Aryan Brotherhood.


Sieg Heil

en-verb

Sieg Heil (third-person singular simple present Sieg Heils, present participle Sieg Heiling, simple past and past participle Sieg Heiled)

Sieg Heils (present singular third-person)
Sieg Heiling (participle present)
Sieg Heiled (participle past)
Sieg Heiled (past)

Unadapted borrowing from German Sieg Heil, from Sieg (“victory”) + Heil, a common chant at political rallies in Nazi Germany, translating as "victory brings salvation" or alternatively as "salvation [to] victory" on the model of Heil Hitler.

ubor

(intransitive) To perform a Nazi salute while chanting Sieg Heil.


race relations

The patterns of behaviour between ethnic groups of people

rassenrelaties

the patterns of behaviour between ethnic groups of people

The branch of sociology that studies these patterns


racial discrimination

The only racial discrimination on the railway is against Europeans, as they are not issued with tickets below second class, even for trains which consist of third class carriages only.

1950 April, Timothy H. Cobb, “The Kenya-Uganda Railway”, in Railway Magazine, page 267:

Discrimination on grounds of race or ethnicity.


Fourth Reich

الرَّايْخ الرَابِع

Hypothetical resurrection of the Third Reich

Are you listening, sir? Or did your mind drift / to the next country in your axis, / to all the cool bomb drops you get to call: / delivery fresh from the Fourth Reich to y’all?

2005, “Special Delivery”, in MC Frontalot (music), Nerdcore Rising:

From their hideaways in South America, it would have been easy for the Nazis to slink away down to New Swabia and establish the Fourth Reich.

2009, Monte Cook, “Everything's Better with Nazis”, in The Skeptic's Guide to Conspiracies, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN:

Hypothetical resurrection of Nazi Germany (Third Reich).

A government or country seen as similarly authoritarian.

"[…] This ‘Fourth Reich’ section of the City has no decrease in the number of Central European refugees."

1937, Report of the New York Public Library for 1937, page 92:

Washington Heights, Manhattan
w:Washington Heights, Manhattan

(historical) Nickname for Washington Heights, Manhattan, after the German immigrants there.


audism

From audio + -ism, modelled after racism and sexism. Coined by American academic Tom Humphries in 1975.

coinage

(sociology) Discrimination against deaf people in favor of hearing people.


Auschwitz

From German Auschwitz, the German name for the town known in Polish as Oświęcim, which the concentration camp was near.

A former concentration camp in what is now Poland; used metonymically for Nazi evil, the Holocaust.


oinker

The slug they dug out of him was a .22. A woman's gun? Or was I being a sexist oinker?

2006, Robert B. Parker, Hundred-Dollar Baby, Putnam, →ISBN, page 150:

(derogatory slang) An MCP; male chauvinist pig.


Sinophobia

Fear, hostility or aversion to China, Chinese people or Chinese culture.


ethnicism

en-noun

ethnicism (countable and uncountable, plural ethnicisms)


Godwin's law

Named after American attorney and author Mike Godwin (1956–).

named-after

The power to be a being of pure thought, the unlimited, unconstrained world of imagination, and we build a world of animated gifs, stupid sight gags, lame van-art avatars, stupid “playful” environments, and brain-dead flame wars augmented by animated emoticons that allowed participants to express their hackneyed ad hominems, concern-trollery, and Godwin's law violations through the media of cartoon animals and oversized genitals.

2012, Cory Doctorow, Charles Stross, The Rapture of the Nerds, Tor Books, →ISBN, page 296:

His article urges people not to be “afraid” of being charged with confirming Godwin's law. But who would be afraid of that charge when you believe that the Nazi analogy is apt?

2018, Scott F. Aikin, Robert B. Talisse, Why We Argue, Routledge, →ISBN:

(Internet, usually humorous) The adage that any Usenet discussion will eventually mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler.

(usually humorous) An adage that states that the first person in an argument (usually in an online comment thread or forum) to mention the Nazis or Adolf Hitler has lost.


ableist

en-adj

ableist (comparative more ableist, superlative most ableist)

more ableist (comparative)
most ableist (superlative)

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From able + -ist, by analogy with racist, sexist, etc.

The words "lame" and "spaz" are ableist slurs.

Beyoncé’s commitment to musical and visual storytelling did not “excuse her use of ableist language – language that gets used and ignored all too often”, wrote Diviney.

2022 August 1, Laura Snapes, quoting Hannah Diviney, “Beyoncé to change Renaissance lyric containing ableist slur”, in The Guardian:


ableist

→ Ukrainian: е́йбліст (éjblist)

Like racists and sexists, ableists discriminate against the disabled due only to the fact that they have disabilities and believe in the superior nature and abilities of nondisabled people.

2008, Susan Musser, Andrea B. DeMott, David M. Haugen, Rights of the Disabled:

One who exhibits ableism, or prejudice against the disabled.


reindeer games

/ˈɹeɪndɪə ˌɡeɪmz/

From the song “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” (1949) by the American songwriter Johnny Marks (1909–1985): “All of the other reindeer / Used to laugh and call him names. / They never let poor Rudolph / Join in any reindeer games.”

The natives are a primitive but gregarious lot. They invited me to join them in their reindeer games, which I did.

1984, Joseph Dougherty, Digby: A Play, New York, N.Y.: Dramatists Play Service, published 1986, →OCLC, page 68:

Transfer to Washington. Transfer to Jefferson. No one at Westerburg's going to let you play their reindeer games.

1989, Daniel Waters, Heathers, spoken by Heather Chandler (Kim Walker):

His unhappiness was not due solely to the ravages of adolescence, the eccentricities of his family, exclusion from his peers' reindeer games, or even by living in the embodiment of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. It was all of those things and none of them.

2002, Terry J. Kunkel, “An Older Reflection”, in Is Wanting Enough? […], Lincoln, Neb.: Writers Club Press, iUniverse, →ISBN, part I (Lighting the Race Point Luminaria on Cape Cod), page 40:

It's tough being different in a society where conformity is so very important. Not the type of different that caused you to be picked on by the big kids in grade school because you wore glasses or didn't join the reindeer games, but the type of different that caused you to listen up in class and always do your homework.

2003 October 27, Tim Dannelly, “The Top, Home of the Lonely Brave”, in Living the American Dream, [Bloomington, Ind.]: 1stbooks, →ISBN:

When socializing it's important that you never talk business unless they bring it up. If you do, you'll find out quickly that you're no longer invited to any of the really good reindeer games. Rather, be a good listener.

2006, Christopher Duncan, “Managing Your Management”, in Dominic Shakeshaft, editor, The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactics for an Imperfect World (The Expert’s Voice), 2nd edition, Berkeley, Calif.: Apress, →ISBN, part II (Guerilla Tactics for Front-line Programmers), page 171:

Some fighter pilot traditions have taken on the air of reindeer games—they are nothing more than something one has to be a fighter pilot to understand.

2007, Jonathan C. Dowty, “Fighter Pilot Traditions”, in Christian Fighter Pilot is Not an Oxymoron, [U.S.A.?]: [Jonathan C. Dowty], →ISBN, part 1 (Fighter Pilot Foundations), page 23:

He found all the faddishness of what restaurant or club was in, much less what designer clothes one wore or food one ate, to be depressingly shallow and frantic. In his own private protest, he had long since consciously decided not to play their reindeer games.

2009 April, Robert Asprin, “Prologue”, in Dragons Luck, New York, N.Y.: Ace Books, →ISBN:

In my mind I had won. Lyndon was with me and not with Hope so whether the two of them shut me out of their reindeer games or included me, it didn't matter one iota to me.

2014, Latonya D. Young, “The Promise of Forever”, in Secrets in Love, [Morrisville, N.C.]: Lulu Publishing, →ISBN, page 86:

I know reindeer games, and this chick is playing them.

2015, John Hornor Jacobs, chapter 9, in The Conformity (The Twelve-fingered Boy Trilogy; 3), Minneapolis, Minn.: Carolrhoda Lab, Lerner Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 55:

(US, informal) Activities which exclude outsiders.

Johnny Marks
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer


sizeist

A person who discriminates against obese people.


Jim Crow law

From the song Jump Jim Crow (c. 1830) which mockingly portrayed African-Americans. It became a generic term for African-Americans in the early- to mid-19th century.

(US, historical) Any law that racially segregated public facilities and which was enacted in Southern and border states in the United States between 1876 and 1965.


yellow peril

Of yellow + peril, modeled on earlier French péril jaune. Compare yellow as a racist term for East Asian people. Attested in English from the 1890s. The French cognate is attested from the 1880s.

Perhaps the German Emperor is the only man who really believes in the “Yellow Peril,” and what is this “Yellow Peril”?
The thought that the Japanese will get control of 500,000,000 Chinamen, arm them, and kill off the white men is so absurd that a child would laugh at it.

1891, Phillip Jaisohn, “The Far Eastern War from a Japanese point of view”, in Proceedings of the Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting of Progressive Friends, page 94:

I cannot, after a survey necessarily crammed with conjecture, conceive that the Yellow Peril will devastate Europe, or endanger the East Indies, though it may change their populations.

1900 December, Lloyd Sanders, “The Yellow Perils”, in The Anglo-Saxon Review, volume VII, page 102:

As long as the United States remains committed to aggressive capitalism domestically and aggressive militarism internationally, Asians and Asian Americans will continue to be scapegoats who embody threat and aspiration, an inhuman “yellow peril” and a superhuman model minority.

2021 June 6, Viet Thanh Nguyen, “The Flawed Fiction of ‘Asian American’”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, page SR 3:

(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) The alleged threat to Western nations by East Asians, especially Chinese or Japanese people, due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.


Amerikkkan

Respelling of American to incorporate KKK.

People are rising up to free themselves from amerikkkan corporate exploitation.

1971, Revolutionary actions ... U.S.A. ... in retrospect: what to do now, page 58:

Contemporary Yankees don't kolonize^([sic]) with guns and crucifixes only, they now kolonize with the “sale” of Amerikkkan produkts^([sic]) which range from T.V. dinners to nuclear armaments.

Hasn’t this been the history of Amerikkkan racist rhetoric and action?

2007, Sadiki Bakari, Butt Naked Raw & Uncensored, page 18:

"To Blacks over the years, that flag flew over an AmeriKKKan government that made the crime of slavery legal.
"That same flag flew over the signing of the US Constitution that scribes with indelible ink that Blacks are three-fifths of a human being.

2005, Okeyo A. Jumal, Spiritual Shackles, page 301:

(derogatory, slang) American; generally used in depicting America or Americans as fascist or racist.


Amerikkkan

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Amerikkkan.

(derogatory, slang, politics, ethnic slur) An American; generally used in depicting America or Americans as fascist or racist.


race-bait

en-verb

race-bait (third-person singular simple present race-baits, present participle race-baiting, simple past and past participle race-baited)

race-baits (present singular third-person)
race-baiting (participle present)
race-baited (participle past)
race-baited (past)

From race + -bait (manipulation to elicit a particular response).


fattism

From fat + -ism (by analogy with racism, sexism, etc.).

Discrimination on the grounds of fatness.


yellow horde

As we rode slowly over the Lunghai Line toward Sianfu, across the brown sun-baked plains of Northern Honan, soon to be flooded when the Chinese breached the Yellow River dikes to stop the advancing Yellow Horde, we passed many troop trains en-route to the front.

1941, Edgar Snow, The Battle for Asia, New York: Random House, page 26:

So the Chinese and Central Asians are the barbaric, faceless, yellow horde that may once again drown the noble Slavs.

1994 December 18, Steven Erlanger, “The World: Demons in Russia's Mind Arise Again—in the Flesh”, in New York Times, retrieved 2008-07-29:

(derogatory, racially offensive, sometimes capitalized) East Asian nations or people, especially the people of China or Japan, conceived as foreign and menacing due to their vast population, non-Western cultures, or supposed antagonism to the West.

gule horde

racially offensive term denoting East Asian nations or people


transphobia

en-noun

transphobia (usually uncountable, plural transphobias)

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From trans- + -phobia or trans + -phobia.

It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia.

1998, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook:

In this case, transphobia is represented in Pollock's terms as both the "condition and the effect" of Cameron's social existence.

2006, Susan Stryker, Stephen Whittle, The Transgender Studies Reader:

Hatred or fear of, or prejudice against, transgender and transsexual people.

رهاب التحول الجندري

fear or hatred of transgender and transsexual people and/or of transness


transphobic

en-adj

transphobic (comparative more transphobic, superlative most transphobic)

more transphobic (comparative)
most transphobic (superlative)

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And it too closely parallels transphobic attacks that charge: "Once a man, always a man; once a woman, always a woman."

1999, Leslie Feinberg, Trans Liberation: Beyond Pink or Blue:

When 64% of trans pupils say they are bullied for being LGBTQ+ at school, almost half of those bullied never tell anyone about it, and 46% say they hear transphobic language “frequently” at school, it’s fair to say there is a crisis in our education system around tackling bullying, violence, harassment and social exclusion.

August 24 2021, Shon Faye, “‘I feel like it’s quite shaky acceptance’: trans kids and the fight for inclusion”, in The Guardian:

transfobia

relating to or characteristic of transphobia


religiophobia

From Latin religiō (“moral obligation, worship”) and Ancient Greek φόβος (phóbos, “fear”).

uder

Hence it is not necessary for the scientists to develop a sort of religiophobia nor is it necessary for the religious man to develop an attitude of suspicion against science.

1937, A Chakravarti, Humanism and Indian Thought, G.S. Press, page 2

Racial groupthink and "religiophobia"...

In fact he reverses the issue of religiophobia by stating flatly that those who are not against him are for him!

A fear or hatred of religion, religious faith, religious people or religious organisations.


Klansman

From Klan + -s- + man. (Klan's man) (KKK clansman).

Coordinate term: Klanswoman

Klansmen — Behold the Deed without a name

1868, Robert Henry Newell, Smoked Glass, page 103:

A man who is a member of the Ku Klux Klan.


religiophobic

en-adj

religiophobic (comparative more religiophobic, superlative most religiophobic)

more religiophobic (comparative)
most religiophobic (superlative)


National Socialism

The ideology of the Nazi Party, including an authoritarian government, ethnic nationalism (including but not limited to Pan-Germanism) and adequate territory (Lebensraum), and economic cooperation between the state and capital.


folkish

folkish (comparative more folkish, superlative most folkish)

more folkish (comparative)
most folkish (superlative)

universalist

chiefly US; related to their opponents, neopagan groups that support marginalized people

From folk + -ish. (Compare Old English folcisc, and German völkisch.)

neo-völkisch

related to far-right or racist neopagan groups

(religion, Germanic paganism, especially in white supremacy and Nazism) Practicing far-right and racist forms of Heathenry that are hostile towards minorities, Christians, and Jewish people; and also supporting Nazi influences.


antiqueer

On the connection between antiqueer and anticommunist hysteria...

2005, Thomas Vernon Reed, The Art of Protest:

The antiqueer brigade of the Muslim Students Association fell apart before my eyes.

2005, Irshad Manji, The Trouble with Islam Today:

While arguments that claim to identify the singular cause of antiqueer oppression can be exhilarating and compelling, they are also dangerous...

2006, Paisley Currah, Richard M Juang, Shannon Minter, Transgender Rights:

Opposed to queer (non-heterosexual) people.


antiblack

antiblack (comparative more antiblack, superlative most antiblack)

more antiblack (comparative)
most antiblack (superlative)

Coordinate term: antiwhite

[It] overlapped significantly with some aspects of antiblack ideologies in the United States, through forms of antiblack racism in Cuba that preceded the U.S. occupation. As de la Fuente notes, calls for de-Africanization […]

2006, Michael Hanchard, Party/Politics: Horizons in Black Political Thought, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 203:

The unpublished study found that the answers revealed little evidence of antiblack bias[…]

2009 January 15, Sarah Kershaw, “Talk About Race? Relax, It’s O.K.”, in New York Times:

Hostile to black people, often specifically African Americans.


gingerism

/ˈd͡ʒɪnd͡ʒɚɪzm̩/

Gingerism is popular with comedians and audiences, and just as addicts take methadone instead of heroin, ginger gags are a safe, controlled substitute for ....

1997, Oliver Double, Stand Up!: On Being a Comedian, page 219:

A young girl asked the website: "What is the difference between racism, gingerism and sexism? "Nothing, that's what.

2004 July 22, “Red alert over an annoying prejudice.”, in Huddersfield Daily Examiner:

Gingerism in the workplace could form the basis of formal grievances or constructive dismissal cases, an employment lawyer has warned.

2007 June 14, “Red hair bullying cases could end up in court”, in The Register:

(British, Australia, New Zealand) Prejudice or discrimination against people with red hair.


nigger lover

At once he said, ‘If you're not careful, Matty dear, you'll become a proper little nigger-lover.’

1952, Doris Lessing, Martha Quest, Panther, published 1974, page 195:

If I am speaking about racial equality, it is because ‘kikes are nigger-lovers’.

1991, Alan Morton Dershowitz, Chutzpah, page 83:

(derogatory, ethnic slur) A white person considered excessively fond towards, protective of, or considerate to blacks, especially (historical) an abolitionist as considered to be a race traitor.


klan

"It's serious, serious enough that the FBI ... and other law enforcement agencies are trying to get on top of it because the klan has made direct threats to Obama," pastor Clary, who now fights against the group as a born-again Christian, said.

2009 January 30, “Obama presidency 'ignites Ku Klux Klan'”, in Herald Sun:


Lebensraum

Unadapted borrowing from German Lebensraum (literally “living room”).

ubor

The title of this article evokes memories of the beginning of World War II and reveals one method dictators use to increase their power. In China’s case, Xi Jinping’s Anschluss of Hong Kong in June 2020 fits nicely with the way Hitler began his initial European expansion strategy, called Lebensraum (living space). In Zweites Buch, Hitler said that to dominate the world, Germany must expand its borders and areas it controls. The first way to start achieving Lebensraum would be through Anschluss — the unification of Austria and Germany. Further, he envisioned an expansion that would include Poland, Czechoslovakia, the rest of Europe and Russia.

2021 March 15, Guermantes Lailari, “The Lebensraum Factor in Xi Jinping’s Strategy for Hong Kong and Taiwan”, in Jewish Policy Center, archived from the original on 2021-04-05:

(in German history from the mid-nineteenth to mid-twentieth Centuries) Territories considered appropriate for German habitation, regarded as vital for the natural flourishing of the German race:

(in later usage, Nazism) a Großdeutschland obtained through Endoeuropean expansion, usually with a focus upon Drang nach Osten, and varying in its scope from the comparatively modest annexation of the Polish Border Strip to overlordship of the European continent by the conquest of Russian lands as far as the Urals.


antiracist

en-adj

antiracist (comparative more antiracist, superlative most antiracist)

more antiracist (comparative)
most antiracist (superlative)

They've walked the curves of the deserted park singing and chanting antiracist slogans.

1988 September 2, Gary Johnson, “Dream Day”, in Chicago Reader:


antihomosexual

antihomosexual (comparative more antihomosexual, superlative most antihomosexual)

more antihomosexual (comparative)
most antihomosexual (superlative)

Even at the height of antihomosexual hysteria during the most overwrought day of the Cold War, a number of paperbacks appeared that dealt with male homosexuality.

2001, Susan Stryker, Queer Pulp, page 11:


antiwoman

antiwoman (comparative more antiwoman, superlative most antiwoman)

more antiwoman (comparative)
most antiwoman (superlative)

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That Megawati Sukarnoputri has been labeled an antiwoman president has little to do with religion. Among other things, she voted not to ratify a provision that 30 percent of people voted to parliament should be women.

2010, Anne Rasmussen, Women, the Recited Qur’an, and Islamic Music in Indonesia, page 271:


antiwhite

antiwhite (comparative more antiwhite, superlative most antiwhite)

more antiwhite (comparative)
most antiwhite (superlative)

Coordinate term: antiblack

In particular, the discussion is concerned with beliefs by blacks about whites, antiwhite and anti-Semitic attitudes.

1972, Center for Minority Group Mental Health Programs (U.S.), Bibliography on Racism - Volumes 1-2, page 17:

These and other questions were asked not to examine antiwhite feelings in depth — this would have required another study — but to build a rough index of antiwhite attitudes.

1979, Harold Earl Quinley, Charles Young Glock, Anti-Semitism in America, page 70:

[…] choosing at this juncture to redefine himself in relation to an emerging black culture, a culture that was self-consciously antiwhite and, more significantly still, antinigger.

2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black: Desire, Choice and Black American Intellectual, page 131:

Vaché's rambuncious racelessness, which in practice translated into an antiwhite affirmation of other races, […]

2008, Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism, page 296:

When I speak publicly, I make a point of distinguishing between being antiwhite, which I am, and being unwhite, which I do not claim to have become.

2008, Noel Ignatiev, “One Summer Evening”, in Bernestine Singley, editor, When Race Becomes Real, page 299:

West demonstrated that one can vociferously and unrelentingly condemn white supremacy as well as critically examine the harm it continues to inflict on black Americans without being antiwhite.

2012, Ian Reifowitz, Obama's America, page 30:

Similarly, according to Blue Eyes, L.A. Law was little more than antiwhite propaganda: It was a real jewfest promoting multiculturalism and race mixing.

2014, Sarah E. Turner, Sarah Nilsen, The Colorblind Screen: Television in Post-Racial America:

For example, as one user noted: I am sick of self hating whites, white guilt, and multiculturalism which is jost ^([sic]) a codeword for antiwhite.

2016, Jennifer Schweppe, Mark Austin Walters, The Globalization of Hate: Internationalizing Hate Crime?, page 69:

As Malcolm X so eloquently pronounced: "If the present generation of whites would study their own race in the light of their true history, they would be anti-white themselves."

2018, Vajra M. Watson, Transformative Schooling: Towards Racial Equity in Education, page xv:

White nationalists recognize this as an opening. They hear antiracists' calls to “dismantle whiteness” and suggestions that we should be “less white” and they use our words against us as they claim that “antiracism is antiwhite.”

2022, Shelly Tochluk, Witnessing Whiteness: The Journey Into Racial Awareness and Antiracist Action, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 106:

Hostile to white people or white culture.


antiracism

en-noun

antiracism (usually uncountable, plural antiracisms)

Singleton talked in June about antiracism being pitted against the immense coupled forces of “white dysconsciousness and power” and told me that he hadn’t watched the video of Floyd’s killing, because “I believe once I’ve seen the video it will change the person I am.

2020 July 15, Daniel Bergner, “‘White Fragility’ Is Everywhere. But Does Antiracism Training Work?”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:

One can divide antiracism into three waves along the lines that feminism has been. First Wave Antiracism battled slavery and legalized segregation. Second Wave Antiracism, in the 1970s and ’80s, battled racist attitudes and taught America that being racist is a moral flaw. Third Wave Antiracism, becoming mainstream in the 2010s, teaches that because racism is baked into the structure of society, whites’ “complicity” in living within it constitutes racism itself, […]

2021, John H. McWhorter, chapter 1, in Woke Racism, New York: Forum, →ISBN:


transgenderism

transgenderism (usually uncountable, plural transgenderisms)

/ˌtɹænzˈd͡ʒɛndəɹɪsm/

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the International Journal of Transgenderism

Transexualism. Where the compulsive urge reaches beyond female vestments, and becomes an urge for gender ("sex") change, transvestism becomes "transexualism." The term is misleading; actually, "transgenderism" is meant, because sexuality is not a major factor in primary transvestism. Psychologically, the transexual often differs from the simple cross-dresser; he is conscious at all times of a strong desire to be a woman, and the urge can be truly consuming.

1965, John F. Oliven, “Sexual Deviations”, in Sexual Hygiene and Pathology: A Manual for the Physician and the Professions, 2nd edition, →OCLC, page 514:

To the same end, I steer clear from any "far out" explanation of the transgender phenomenon. I have seen a speaker have an audience fairly well with her and then, in the space of a few minutes, alienate a substantial number of them by trying to tie transgenderism to the concept of reincarnation.

1981, Linda Lee, “Public Speaking”, in Female Mimics International, volume 11, number 8, Studio City, CA: Eros Publishing Company, page 47, column 2:

Instead of searching for physiological causes of transgenderism, the early psychoanalysts proposed possible psychological origins for cross-dressing and transgenderism.

1994, Gordene Olga MacKenzie, Transgender Nation, page 37:

We will briefly discuss the interaction of gender orientation and sexuality, including transgenderism.

2012, Richard D. McAnulty, Sex in College: The Things They Don't Write Home About, page 169:

In this wider sense, transgenderism is on a continuum line with the condition of anyone who may seek to live a life that is authentic to themselves as individuals.

2013, Simona Giordano, Children with Gender Identity Disorder, page 9:

Transgender people, who identify as the opposite gender to the one they were born with, should no longer be considered mentally ill, according to a new UN categorisation. The World Health Organization issued a new catalogue Monday covering 55,000 diseases, injuries and causes of death, in which it discreetly recategorised transgenderism.[…] Several countries have already taken steps to reclassify transgenderism and take it off the list of mental disorders, including France and Denmark. Say said she thought the text, which is the result of years of discussion among experts, would easily win approval, despite widespread lack of acceptance of transgender people in many parts of the world.

2018 June 19, “Transgenderism no longer a mental illness: WHO”, in France 24, archived from the original on 2018-06-19:

(dated, see usage notes) The state of being transgender.


intersexed

(now uncommon and often offensive and proscribed) Intersex.


Izzy

From the /ɪz-/ root of the names + -y. The common noun derives from Isaac and Israel, male given names of Hebrew origin, popular among Jewish people, the latter also being the name of the self-defined Jewish state.

"I approve of anything you desire to do, Izzy," said Henchard huskily.

1886, Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge:

A diminutive of the female given name Isabel, Isobel, Isabelle, Isabella, Elizabeth, Isidora, Isra, Izebel, Ismara and Isobelle.


Jewish piano

From the row of keys on a cash register and the stereotype of Jews as money-grubbing.


heightist

en-adj

heightist (comparative more heightist, superlative most heightist)

more heightist (comparative)
most heightist (superlative)

Pertaining to, or exhibiting, the prejudice of heightism.


speciesist

From species + -ist, first use appears c. 1975 in the publications of Richard D. Ryder.


speciesist

speciesist (comparative more speciesist, superlative most speciesist)

more speciesist (comparative)
most speciesist (superlative)


gendercide

en-noun

gendercide (usually uncountable, plural gendercides)

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From gender + -cide, by analogy with femicide, homicide, etc. Doublet of genocide.

The killing of people because of their gender.


boys' club

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(informal) A male-dominated organization, especially in business, that excludes or mistreats women.


old boys' club

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A boys' club (an organization that excludes women), especially one with an established history of male control.


nonracist

en-adj

nonracist (comparative more nonracist, superlative most nonracist)

more nonracist (comparative)
most nonracist (superlative)


antifat

From their study, Latner and Stunkard concluded that antifat attitudes are getting worse.

2007, Lesli J Favor, Weighing in: Nutrition and Weight Management:


hate speech

→ Japanese: ヘイトスピーチ

From hate + speech. Compare Old English hetesprǣċ (“hateful speech”).

cog

Coordinate term: hate crime

Facebook belatedly moved to further restrict hate speech that glorified violence against women after an organized social media campaign caused some companies like Nissan, the automaker, to withhold advertising from the site.

2013 May 30, “Hate Speech on Facebook”, in New York Times:

Speech that attacks or disparages a person or group of persons on the basis of origin, race, nationality, ethnicity, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, or disability.


colorism

en-noun

colorism (usually uncountable, plural colorisms)

Black America used to be, and perhaps still is, a pigmentocracy, which means that the social hierarchy is based largely on colorism.

2011, Don Lemon, Transparent, Las Vegas: Farrah Gray, →ISBN:

This type of preferential colorism isn’t only found in the church aisles, it’s at family gatherings, on the dating scene, in the classroom, on the playground—it’s everywhere.

2019, Alicia Williams, “2019 Kirkus Prize Finalists: Alicia D. Williams on Writing Genesis Begins Again”, in Kirkus Reviews, retrieved 2021-04-15:

Colorism from your own people feels worse than racism – at the very least your own family and people should welcome you, no?

2019 April 18, Pariha Laila Begum, quotee, “Shades of Black: how readers responded to our series on the colorism taboo”, in The Guardian:

Eliminating racism and colorism is, of course, a worthy pursuit, but it’s also impossible to do in the abstract.

2020 July 29, E. Tammy Kim, “The Perils of “People of Color””, in The New Yorker:

Like those, James’s season still gave noticeably less screen time to its Black contestants—and because of James’s Blackness, the colorism that has always plagued The Bachelor became more visible.

2021 March 15, Kovie Biakolo, “The Bachelor’s “Groundbreaking” Season Was a Representation Nightmare”, in Vanity Fair:

Like many other parts of the world, colourism is rampant in India.

2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 166:

(American spelling) Prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification.

colorisme

prejudice or bias against persons on the basis of their skin color or complexion, often among persons of the same racial identification


Obergruppenführer

a Nazi party paramilitary rank that was first created in 1932 as a rank of the SA and until 1942 it was the highest rank in the SS


Kristallnacht

Unadapted borrowing from German Kristallnacht (“night of broken glass”, literally “crystal night”).

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The Kristallnacht was a monumental development in Nazi anti-Jewish policy for several reasons. It was the single instance of large-scale, public, and organized physical violence against Jews inside Germany before the Second World War.

2009, Alan E. Steinweis, Kristallnacht 1938, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 4:

This is a very dangerous drift in our American thinking. Kristallnacht was unthinkable in 1930; is its descendant “progressive” radicalism unthinkable now?

2014 January 24, Tom Perkins, “Progressive Kristallnacht Coming?”, in Wall Street Journal, →ISSN:

Arnold Schwarzenegger issued a stinging rebuke of Donald Trump on Sunday, comparing the riot at the US Capitol which the president incited to Kristallnacht, the night in November 1938 when Nazi thugs attacked Jewish Germans and their property, a harbinger of horrors to come.

2021 January 10, Martin Pengelly, “Schwarzenegger rebukes Trump and compares Capitol riot to Kristallnacht”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:

(historical, Nazism) The night of November 9–10, 1938, when a state-organized night of terror was staged against Jews in Germany and Austria.


Wotanism

* From German Wotan (“Odin”) + -ism.
* White supremacist David Lane chose the spelling because it allowed the backronym "will of the Aryan nation".

A white supremacist racial religion promulgated by David Lane.


dhimmitude

c. 1985, from French (c. 1982), from dhimmi + -tude.

The most likely scenario for Europe isn't dhimmitude; it's a long period of tension, punctuated by spasms of violence, that makes the Continent a more unpleasant place without fundamentally transforming it.

2009 December 7, Ross Douthat, “Europe's Minaret Moment”, in New York Times:

(derogatory) Appeasement towards Islamic demands.


once you go black, you never go back

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-once you go black, you never go back.wav

"You really think she likes me?" I asked.
"What do you think? You know what they say! Once you go black, you never go back!" Zac said rhythmically.

2005, M. W. Moore, For What I Hate I Do, page 61:

Thus our young man of words turns to an ugly American joke told most often by his black compatriots as he searches for the title of his study. “Once you go black, you never go back.” Is it true?

2007, Robert Reid-Pharr, Once You Go Black, page 10:

(informal) Once someone has had sexual intercourse with a black person they will not want to return to having sexual intercourse with nonblack people.


weeaboo

Bulgarian: уийб (uijb)

Indonesian: wibu

Polish: łibus

A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, used later that year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term wapanese on the message board 4chan, from which its current sense derived and spread. Now sometimes reclaimed as a self-description by anime and manga fans.

(fandom slang, sometimes positive) A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.


niggerization

From nigger + -ization. First use of the sense meaning dehumanization appears c. 1969 in the San Francisco Chronicle.

First, there was urgent need for indentured labour, then the need to keep this labour force permanent; the denial of education at first, and later such facilities were made available but on the condition of proselytization and indoctrination, deculturization, dehumanization and niggerization.

The basic goals of niggerization were to promote white greed and hatred […]

2008, David Hilliard, The Black Panther Party: service to the people programs:

What are the conditions under which black people will straighten their backs? How do you shake the niggerization out of black people?

2009, Cornel West, Hope on a Tightrope: Words and Wisdom:

Niggerization is a process; a degenerating progression used on anyone not just blacks.

2012, K. L. Stubblefield, American Reprobate, page 137:

(offensive, ethnic slur) The usually systematic act of dehumanizing people, especially black people.

The reply was to call the republicans the party of "taxation and niggerization," as J. Sterling Morton named them in the Nebraska City News.

1904, Addison Erwin Sheldon, Semi-centennial History of Nebraska, page 97:

The United States Government, under Jewry, is committed to the increasing judaization and niggerization of our entire society.

1977, The Liberty Bell - Volume 4, page 14:

this inference provides the bully pulpit from which Helms exhorts whites to "vote for me. I'll stop the Niggerization of white folk jobs."

2007, Ernest Dillard Sr., End Racism in the United States with a White Sword, page 47:

(offensive) The act or process of exposing or subjecting to black people or their influence.


niggerize

en-verb

niggerize (third-person singular simple present niggerizes, present participle niggerizing, simple past and past participle niggerized)

niggerizes (present singular third-person)
niggerizing (participle present)
niggerized (participle past)
niggerized (past)

It's difficult to view only the addict as "sick" when a "normal" society is rotting: with racial conflict, with increasing poverty, with a school system niggerizing potentially creative minds, with obscene military spending and war aggression […]

1971, Nicholas M. Regush, The Drug Addiction Business, page 126:

If you need to niggerize, go and get yourself a passel of spades. We ain't niggers.

1973, Bartholomew Gill, Mark McGarrity, Lucky Shuffles, page 61:

We cannot niggerize half the peoples of the world.

1996, Charles Eric Lincoln, Coming Through the Fire: Surviving Race and Place in America, page 139:

The destruction of the downtrodden, Black people is an ongoing melee, when White racists have continued to niggerize Black people with their racist laws, their racist customs and racist practices.

2022, VK Ogilvie, Niggers Sing Redemption Songs: Reggae, the Heart-Beat of a People:

(transitive, ethnic slur, offensive) To subject to niggerization, (the act of dehumanizing black people, or other people in the manner of black people).


corrective rape

en-noun

corrective rape (countable and uncountable, plural corrective rapes)

corrective + rape. First used in South Africa, in reference to the raping of lesbians.

Raping a lesbian, HRW [(Human Rights Watch)] researchers found, can make a man a township hero. Attackers boast publicly of their crimes and declare to their victims, "We'll show you you're a woman," the report said. Such attacks are known as "corrective rapes" in South Africa.

[2011 December 5, Donna Bryson, “Rights group: South African lesbians face abuse”, in Yahoo! News, archived from the original on 2012-11-12:

In early reports of corrective rape, gender non-conforming behavior among black lesbian women is cited as one of the most prevalent motivations behind the perpetration of such violence (Mufweba and Bhengu, 2003).

2021, S. J. Dodd, editor, The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work and Sexualities, Routledge, →ISBN, page 99:

The act of raping someone because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity in an attempt to force the person to be heterosexual or to enforce gender stereotypes.

姦改 /奸改

raping a person because of their perceived sexual orientation or gender identity