When Racists Called Themselves “Racists”

Today, even the most hardened white supremacists are reluctant to use the term for themselves

Nathan G Alexander
Arc Digital
Published in
8 min readSep 29, 2020

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Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler (Fox Photos/Getty)

“I am not a racist. I’m the least racist person you have ever interviewed.”

So declared Donald Trump in response to one of his many controversial statements about race — in this case, his query in 2018 as to why so…

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Nathan G Alexander
Arc Digital

Writer and Historian from Canada. Author of Race in a Godless World: Atheism, Race, and Civilization, 1850–1914 (2019) https://www.nathangalexander.com/