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racist, n. and a.|ˈreɪsɪst|
[f. race n.2 + -ist.]
A. n. = racialist n.
1932M. Eastman tr. Trotsky's Hist. Russ. Revol. i. 27 This brief comment completely finishes off not only the old philosophy of the Slavophiles, but also the latest revelations of the ‘Racists’. 1934H. G. Wells Exper. Autobiogr. I. iii. 107 So much for the Hitlerite stage of my development, when I was a sentimentalist, a moralist, a patriot, a racist. 1940R. Benedict Race: Science & Politics vii. 214 Classic German racists..ascribed all achievements beyond the Alps to infiltrations of northern blood. 1959New Statesman 30 May. 754/2 They see nothing to be gained..if they are dismissed and replaced by fanatical racists. 1965San Francisco Examiner 15 Apr. 34/5, I recently heard a man denounced as a racist for having observed that the rate of illegitimacy in New York is 14 times as high among the Negro population as among the white. 1973A. Dundes Mother Wit p. xii, Folklore has been used as the tool of racists.
B. adj. = racialist a.
1938E. & C. Paul tr. Hirschfeld's Racism xv. 201 Elective affinity laughs at the maxims and prohibitions of racist wiseacres. 1938Mag. Digest Aug. 22 The racist revue, Archiv für Biologie und Rassengesellschaft, one of the organs of the National Socialist Party, published an article..on ‘The utility of aerial bombardments from the point of view of racial selection and social hygiene’. 1938Sun (Baltimore) 14 Nov. 6/2 On Thursday..Rome approved new decrees increasing the severity of Italian Fascism's new ‘racist’ principles. 1940R. Benedict Race: Science & Politics vii. 188 The racist traditions..of the fair, blue-eyed narrow-heads. 1957P. Worsley Trumpet shall Sound App. 268 Racist doctrines and rule by force ‘worked’ to a degree in the short run of Nazidom, they failed in the (not very) long run. 1960Guardian 23 Mar. 8/2 The President is trying to knock out the racist props from under the present immigration law. 1970E. Bullins Theme is Blackness (1973) 167 I'm too mature and sophisticated to get sucked in by racist arguments. 1979Globe & Mail (Toronto) 28 Nov. 8/4 [Mr. Levesque] can't bear any suggestion that he or his party could be racist, could treat non-francophones as second-class citizens.
Hence raˈcistic a. (rare).
1950E. W. Count This is Race 734 Combating racistic theories. 1963Observer 7 Apr. 22/2 This society is dedicated to pleasure and not over-concerned with the big racistic abstractions. |