All 3 Uses of
Nazi
in
Black Like Me
- Then I realized that he was describing racists everywhere and from all times—that this is the religious trait of men who twist their minds to consider racial prejudice a virtue—whether it be a White Citizens Council or Klan member, a Nazi gauleiter, a South African white supremacist or merely someone's aunt who says, "Nobody's worse than those Italians (or Spaniards, or Englishmen, or Danes, etc.)."†
Nazi = Hitler's fanatical and oppressive political party in World War II Germany
- In those days, any mention of racism brought to the public's mind the Nazi suppression of Jewish people, the concentration camps, the gas chambers—and certainly, we protested, we were not like that.†
- Our experience with the Nazis had shown one thing: where racism is practiced, it damages the whole community, not just the victim group.†
*Nazis = members of Hitler's political party who thought they were superior to all others; or those who identify with them
Definition:
Hitler's fanatical and oppressive political party in World War II Germany
or:
derogatory term for a person who is fanatical in their belief of superiority and their determination to control others
or:
derogatory term for a person who is fanatical in their belief of superiority and their determination to control others