ethnostate

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Etymology

From ethno- +‎ state.

Noun

ethnostate (plural ethnostates)

  1. A political unit that is populated by and run in the interest of an ethnic group.
    • 2017 November 7, Eugene D., “Sutherland Springs Shooter Member of Far-Right Neo-Nazi Group “Atomwaffen””, in Medium[1], archived from the original on 23 April 2023:
      Here is what Atomwaffen believes. In short, they believe in violent, direct action that energizes what they call “the Aryan base,” and agitates “the white race” towards a final race war through acts of terror and violence. They believe that terrorist acts will expose some perceived inherent pride among the white colonialists and lead to a bloody mass uprising that ends in the establishment of a white ethnostate at the point of a gun.
    • 2019 August 6, Lauretta Charlton, “What Is the Great Replacement?”, in The New York Times[2], →ISSN:
      Richard Spencer and others fantasize about a white ethno-state — this is the Northwest Territorial Imperative, or Northwest Imperative, that would stretch from Montana to Oregon and Washington State.
    • 2021 February 19, Rob Kuznia, Majlie de Puy Kamp, Sara Sidner and Mallory Simon, “How White nationalists evade the law and continue profiting off hate”, in CNN[3]:
      In an email to CNN, Gariépy denied a CBC news article’s characterization of him as supporting “ideas of white superiority and white ‘ethnostates,’” saying, “no proper context was provided by the journalist to understand the circumstances in which I discussed these subjects in the past.”
    • 2024 November 21, Nicquel Terry Ellis, “A neo-Nazi turf war may have just flared in Columbus, Ohio. Jewish, Black and elected leaders won’t stand for it”, in CNN[4]:
      “Typically, the ultimate goal of groups like ‘Hate Club’ is to turn America into a white ethnostate where white men are in power,” Segal told CNN via email “They consider themselves as both the last remaining bulwark against enemies of the white race and the only path to a white ethnostate.”

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