proto-racists

Noun

proto-racist (plural proto-racists)

1. A person who displays protoracist attitudes or behaviors.
   • This assumption had its origins in the ideas of nineteenth-century critics of utilitiarianism. These critics — they might be romantics, historicists, nationalists, or proto-racists — held that utilitarianism took individuals and their interests as the building blocks of social and political theory...2005, Bart Schultz, Georgios Varouxakis, Utilitarianism and Empire, →ISBN, page 179
2. A person who has the potential to become a racist.
   • If they had asked, they might have found that the last thing which many minority ethnic people wanted was anti-fascist and anti-racist marches which alerted proto-racists and fascists to the fact that they had a vulnerable minority ethnic population in their midst.1998, Paul Hainsworth, Divided Society: Ethnic Minorities and Racism in Northern Ireland, →ISBN

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