white genocide

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Etymology 1

Noun

white genocide (countable and uncountable, plural white genocides)

1. (white supremacy) A supposed plot to eliminate the white race using a variety of means including, but not limited to, miscegenation, immigration, assimilation, multiculturalism and violence.

Translations

white supremacist conspiracy theory to eliminate the white race

• Arabic: نظرية مؤامرة f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 白人種族滅絕 / 白人种族灭绝

• Finnish: valkoisten kansanmurha
• French: génocide blanc (fr) m
• Indonesian: genosida orang kulit putih, genosida kulit putih
• Italian: genocidio bianco m
• Malay: genosid orang kulit putih
• Romanian: genocidul alb n
• Spanish: genocidio blanco m

See also

• Fourteen Words
• Great Replacement

Etymology 2

Partial calque of Armenian սպիտակ եղեռն (spitak eġeṙn), literally "white Yeghern", and/or various similar terms like ճերմակ ջարդ (čermak ǰard, “white massacre”).

Noun

white genocide (uncountable)

1. The supposed elimination of Armenian identity (culturicide), particularly among diasporic Armenians, through assimilation to other cultures and languages.
   • 2016 April 4, Alexis Demirdjian, The Armenian Genocide Legacy, Springer, →ISBN, page 266:

     If identity is placed in the body it is also open to manipulation and impurification, especially in Diaspora communities where younger Armenians come into contact with non-Armenians. This enhances fears that Armenian identity will slowly disappear through a process of 'white genocide', and in turn results in the belief that Armenian Diaspora communities are in danger.

   • 2018 October 8, Vahagn Avedian, Knowledge and Acknowledgement in the Politics of Memory of the Armenian Genocide, Routledge, →ISBN:

     Besides the activities directly related to the recognition process, the genocide has also, as an omnipresent factor, indirectly loaded many diaspora Armenians with considerable overhead activity in their daily life: the [...] Armenian Sunday schools we had to attend while our Swedish classmates were enjoying the weekends, and the constant concern about the new generation's loss of its Armenian identity through assimilation, the “white genocide.” Yet […]