Definitions

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  • adjective Opposed to racism
  • noun One who opposes racism.

Etymologies

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anti- +‎ racist

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Examples

  • Tyskland, Mittweida - Nynazister ridsede et hagekors i huden på deres offer Falsk hate crime afsløret - Sydafrikanske studenters ydmygelse af sorte rengøringsfolk var fup Falske hatecrimes begået af førende Canadisk 'antiracist' Richard Warman Bølge af antisemitiske incidenter i New York - Ivan Ivanov var Mossad agent!

    Blogbot - forsiden 2008

  • This is why I vehemently reject the label of 'antiracist activist' when talking about representation in scifi.

    RFI par téléphone aux Etats-Unis 2009

  • What sets RE5 apart is that its locale is in Africa, and its requisite evil is a zombie (- like) horde -- that combination triggers our overly sensitive antiracist notions, and off we all go, wringing our hands uncomfortably and kneejerking into either justification or admonition mode (whichever better placates your conscience).

    Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009

  • Since I was seeking knowledge (attending an antiracist workshop) rather than being called out for being racist, I welcomed this new frame of understanding.

    So Now What? « Dyepot, Teapot 2009

  • I really don't think so; I'm not keen on getting political here, but I think that replacing one form of racial keenness (racism) with another (antiracist hypersensitivity) is a juvenile, shortsighted non-solution to the problem.

    Savage Kingdom SVGL 2009

  • But that was one of the most important part of the antiracist seminar: Deconditioning yourself from a racist worldview is Hard.

    So Now What? « Dyepot, Teapot 2009

  • My suggestion for conference organizers would be to include optional (and non-schedule-conflicting) antisexist and antiracist workshops.

    So Now What? « Dyepot, Teapot 2009

  • I differ with this in that I don't think class and sexual orientation and nationality and even identities are possessions, singularly owned and carried around on our backs like what one influential antiracist essay called the "invisible knapsack" of white privilege (presumably full of "Tintin in Africa").

    Just Past the Horizon: Neutrality | Robot 6 @ Comic Book Resources – Covering Comic Book News and Entertainment 2009

  • The text is also, of course, antiracist and toward the end heavily, abstractly antiwar, with the blame for these evils placed squarely on men.

    So It Wasn't Jealousy After All? David Littlejohn 2011

  • Galina Kozhevnikova, Sova's deputy director, said the decline has been accompanied by a rise of ultranationalist attacks on human-rights advocates and other antiracist campaigners.

    Moscow Judge Is Shot and Killed Near Home Richard Boudreaux 2010

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