Racistとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA: /ˈɹeɪ.sɪst/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɹæɪ.sɪst/
• 韻: -eɪsɪst

名詞

racist (plural racists)

1. A person who believes in or supports racism; a person who believes that a particular race is superior to others, or who discriminates against other races.
   • 2007, Fran Harris, Will the REAL You Please Stand Up?:

     I don't blame racists, sexists, lookists, or any other “ists” for what they personify and perpetuate. They are mere hostages of their egos.

   • 2009, Shirley R. Steinberg, Diversity and Multiculturalism: A Reader, page 104:

     Almost all the students I interviewed and worked with in group-facilitated discussions resisted being called a racist. This label was just too painful and for most students would not be accepted.

   • 2022 December 6, LeAnna T. Luney, “Like our foremothers survived: Self-education, direct confrontation, and humor as resistance coping in Black womxn and femme college student being”, in Frontiers in Education, volume 7, →DOI, page 10:

     Narrators demonstrated resistance coping techniques through direct confrontation with aggressors, such as racists, sexists, homophobes, elitists, and misogynoirists.

2. (humorous, Internet slang) A person who races (cars, etc.).

上位語

• supremacist

下位語

• Jim Crower, Jim Crowist
• white supremacist, whitist, black supremacist

形容詞

racist (comparative more racist, superlative most racist)

1. Constituting, exhibiting, advocating, or pertaining to racism.
   • 2007 April 24, “George Can't Let Sleeping Mexicans Lie”, in George Lopez, season 6, episode 15, spoken by Max Lopez (Luis Armand Garcia):

     I'm pretty sure I'm flunking math because my teacher is racist against Latinos.

2. (colloquial, proscribed, by extension) Discriminatory.

   They don't allow Muslims and gays to join the club? That's racist!

   • 1996 November 14, Julie Wang, “TC Yang's talent”, in soc.culture.china‎ (Usenet):

     Oh oh.. the term 'Neo-Nazi'.. just a few days ago, I heard a few girls sitting next to my table talking about this guy who was racist against females and call them 'femine-Nazi' (sp?)

   • 1998 April 22, Keri Lynn Sweeney, “Give it up, forger...this is very dull”, in alt.adoption‎ (Usenet):

     Could it be the hate-filled content and the racist attitudes towards women and homosexuals?

   • 2000 August 12, Joe, “Who's Gary Tait anyways”, in alt.cable-tv‎ (Usenet):

     so you are racist against gay ppl? I didnt know cable co's hired racist ppl!

   • 2004, Perth Desperado, One Aussie's Endeavours, AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 191:

     People are racist against the sick and injured

   • 2011, Michelle Tea, Rose of No Man's Land‎, Anchor Canada, →ISBN:

     Amber went thoughtful. I wondered if she was racist against lesbian people.

   • 2013, Travis Waker, The Perfect Game: A Daniel Willis Novel‎, Booktango, →ISBN:

     The guy said the remark sarcastically, as if he was racist against homosexuals.

同意語

• rayciss (pronunciation spelling)
• See Thesaurus:bigoted

派生語

参考

• antiracism
• bigot
• ethnocentrist
• pseudoracism
• racism
• xenophobe

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “racist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “racist”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

アナグラム

• TRIACs, artics, crista, scairt, triacs, tsaric