Race traitor is a pejorative reference to a person who is perceived as supporting attitudes or positions thought to be against the supposed interests or well-being of that person's own race. For example, one or both parties to an interracial relationship may be characterized as "race traitors". As another example, a person who supports affirmative action or other policies that allegedly benefit races other than their own may be characterized as a "race traitor". The term is the source of the name of a quarterly magazine, Race Traitor, founded in 1993.[1]
During Apartheid in South Africa, in which the white minority held exclusive political power, white anti-apartheid activists were characterised as "traitors" by the government.[2]
Thomas Mair, who murdered British MP Jo Cox in 2016, regarded Cox as a "traitor" to the white race. Mair had also published letters criticising "white liberals and traitors" in South Africa who he described as "the greatest enemy of the old apartheid system".[3] After being charged with Cox's murder, he gave his name, during a court hearing, as "Death to traitors, freedom for Britain".[4]
See also
- Anti-Germans (political current)
- Banana
- Black-on-black racism
- Class traitor
- Cuckservative
- Hanjian
- Malinchista
- Rassenschande
- Sarong party girl
- Self-hating Jew
- Shoneenism
- Uncle Tom
- West Brit
- White nigger
- Wigger
References
- ^ Garvey, John; Noel Ignatiev (Winter 1993). "Change Our Name". Race Traitor (1): 126–127.
- ^ "Frederik van Zyl Slabbert, white anti-apartheid leader, dies at 70". 15 May 2010 – via www.washingtonpost.com.
- ^ Cobain, Ian; Parveen, Nazia; Taylor, Matthew (23 November 2016). "The slow-burning hatred that led Thomas Mair to murder Jo Cox" – via www.theguardian.com.
- ^ https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKCN0Z4065