9 sentences with “racist”

Afrikaners in particular were virulently racist and intransigent, unwilling to share power with the black majority.

The confusing mix of what defined a nation in the first place often took on explicitly racial and racist terms among fascist groups.

Along with the new racist version of anti-Semitism, the modern conspiracy theory of global Jewish influence was a distinctly modern phenomenon.

Because it was Africans who were enslaved to work in America under European control, Europeans developed a series of racist theories to excuse the practice from its obvious immorality.

Ironically, although Social Darwinism provided a pseudo-scientific basis for racist and sexist cultural assumptions, these notions of race and culture also fed the fear of degeneration mentioned above.

Now, Germans were not just German-speaking people in Central Europe; they were the German "race" (or "Aryan", the term itself being nothing more than a pseudo-scholastic mishmash of linguistic history and racist nonsense).

The even older version, popular among Europeans themselves in the late 19th century, was openly racist and chauvinistic: it claimed that European civilisation was the bearer of critical thinking, technological know-how, penetrating insight and practicality.

Under Hitler's leadership, the party was renamed the National Socialist German Workers' Party ("Nazi" derives from the German word for "national"), and adopted the swastika, long a favourite of racist pseudo-historians searching for the ancient roots of the fabricated "Aryan" race, as its symbol.

In some territories, notably French North Africa and parts of British West Africa, while colonial administrations were racist and hugely secure in their own cultural dominance, they generally embarked on building at least some modern infrastructure and establishing educational institutions open to the 'natives' (although, as in the British raj in India, Europeans jealously guarded their own authority everywhere).