"whitesplain" meaning in English

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      "form": "whitesplaining",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "whitesplained",
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          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Internet",
          "orig": "en:Internet",
          "parents": [
            "Computing",
            "Networking",
            "Technology",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
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        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Racism",
          "orig": "en:Racism",
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            "Forms of discrimination",
            "Discrimination",
            "Society",
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            "Fundamental"
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          "name": "Social justice",
          "orig": "en:Social justice",
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            "Politics",
            "Society",
            "Sociology",
            "Ideologies",
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            "Social sciences",
            "Fundamental",
            "Sciences"
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        {
          "word": "femsplain"
        },
        {
          "word": "cissplain"
        },
        {
          "word": "mansplain"
        },
        {
          "word": "straightsplain"
        },
        {
          "word": "womansplain"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Clarence Page (quoting Urban Dictionary), \"Rand Paul ‘whitesplaining’ for Howard students\", New Haven Register, 16 April 2013",
          "text": "Rand Paul whitesplained to students at Howard University that a black Republican founded the NAACP."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “Feminism's Toxic Twitter Wars”, in The Nation",
          "text": "One self-described white feminist tweeted at her to explain that no women of color had been at the Barnard meeting \"and that I needed to be educated about that,\" Wilson recalls. Somehow, activists who prided themselves on their racial enlightenment \"were whitesplaining me about racism,\" she adds, laughing.",
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          "ref": "2014, Justin Baragona, \"Paul Ryan claims Black men are lazy and cause of poverty\", New York Beacon, Volume 21, Number 12, 20 March 2014 - 26 March 2014, page 4",
          "text": "Obviously, the answer for those living in abject poverty in a jobless environment is to have someone come down from their lofty perch and whitesplain about how to lift yourself up by your bootstraps."
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To explain (something) condescendingly to one who is not white, especially regarding race relations or minority behavior, presuming the listener's inferior understanding because of their race."
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          "Internet",
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          "explain",
          "explain"
        ],
        [
          "condescendingly",
          "condescendingly"
        ]
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        "(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain (something) condescendingly to one who is not white, especially regarding race relations or minority behavior, presuming the listener's inferior understanding because of their race."
      ],
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        {
          "word": "whitesplainer"
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    },
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      "word": "cissplain"
    },
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      "word": "mansplain"
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      "word": "straightsplain"
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        "present",
        "singular",
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      "tags": [
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        "present"
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    {
      "form": "whitesplained",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "whitesplained",
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        "en:Racism",
        "en:Social justice"
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          "ref": "2013, Clarence Page (quoting Urban Dictionary), \"Rand Paul ‘whitesplaining’ for Howard students\", New Haven Register, 16 April 2013",
          "text": "Rand Paul whitesplained to students at Howard University that a black Republican founded the NAACP."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014 February 17, Michelle Goldberg, “Feminism's Toxic Twitter Wars”, in The Nation",
          "text": "One self-described white feminist tweeted at her to explain that no women of color had been at the Barnard meeting \"and that I needed to be educated about that,\" Wilson recalls. Somehow, activists who prided themselves on their racial enlightenment \"were whitesplaining me about racism,\" she adds, laughing.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Justin Baragona, \"Paul Ryan claims Black men are lazy and cause of poverty\", New York Beacon, Volume 21, Number 12, 20 March 2014 - 26 March 2014, page 4",
          "text": "Obviously, the answer for those living in abject poverty in a jobless environment is to have someone come down from their lofty perch and whitesplain about how to lift yourself up by your bootstraps."
        }
      ],
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        "To explain (something) condescendingly to one who is not white, especially regarding race relations or minority behavior, presuming the listener's inferior understanding because of their race."
      ],
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          "derogatory",
          "derogatory"
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          "Internet",
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          "explain",
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        ],
        [
          "condescendingly",
          "condescendingly"
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        "(colloquial, derogatory, chiefly Internet) To explain (something) condescendingly to one who is not white, especially regarding race relations or minority behavior, presuming the listener's inferior understanding because of their race."
      ],
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        "Internet",
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