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What does supremacism mean?

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Noun
  1. The belief that a particular race, religion, gender, or culture is superior to others, such that those who identify with it are entitled to dominate, control, or rule those who do not.
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It provides a comforting myth of religious supremacism to combat the multifaith, multi-philosophy America that so many of them find troubling.
In the film, recurring news broadcasts suggest the passing of paternalistic Titoism and the rise of ethnic supremacism.
This is not mere opportunism, but a malignant metastasis that not only finds white supremacism an acceptable impulse but one fully consonant with its drive to power.
Finally, unionism's supremacism is said to be evinced in sexist features of unionist political thought and action.
When I grew up in the overwhelmingly white blue-collar suburb of Philadelphia known as Levittown, a soft white supremacism was pervasive.
How did white supremacism, and the populist politics of racial solidarity, offer them a kind of perverse security within that world?

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