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basketball American en · NOUN

Etymology

After African-American. From the stereotype of African-Americans as superior in basketball and athleticism in general. See African-Americans in sports § "Black athletic superiority" theory on Wikipedia.

Meanings

1. (Internet, derogatory, ethnic, slur) An African-American person.
   • One user responded by using stereotypes about the supposed athleticism and uncontrollable libido of Black people in an attempt at humor, writing, “who would pay to watch two basketball Americans wanking at animals in their special aquarium within an aquarium.” 2017 June 15, Robert J Topinka, “Politically incorrect participatory media: Racist nationalism on r/ImGoingToHellForThis”, in New Media & Society, volume 20, number 5, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage Publishing, →DOI, →ISSN, →OCLC:
   • His neck lunges forward, eyes peering at the screen through hooded eyelids, upper lip hangs stiff on an invisible shelf with mouth agape as he stares at these deranged comments: “No looting or twerking.” “No Basketball Americans.” “No drug addicts! No gangbangers! No looting! No raping! No murdering! No melanin rich folk.” 2025 May 9, Tariye George-Phillips, “Parallel Worlds”, in I Love Getting Mad at the Internet: In These Worlds, Richmond, Va.: Virginia Commonwealth University, →DOI, →OCLC, page 33:
   • Ridicule is one of the toughest things to stop. Righteous ridicule is impossible to stop. The religion of peace People without color Basketball Americans etc. if they outlaw those then it's People who play a certain sports American. It's ridiculous. But the people who knew the former will understand the latter. And they will see the the^([sic]) government as the oppressor. [2017 spring, Jessica Garpvall, quoting Toothpuller [pseudonym], “Analysis”, in “I’m Tired of Being Sh-t On for Being White”: Collective Identity Construction in the Alt-Right Movement, Stockholm: Swedish Defence University, →OCLC, archived from the original on 27 Nov 2019, section 3 (The Daily Stormer), subsection 2 (Comments), page 38:
   • And sure I hurl invective at Basketball-Americans and you moneychanger-Americans, but thats only for parody and satire purposes, because I want to hold a mirror up to your own anti-white racism; […] 2021 March 30, The Teacher, “PING: Suckvoid -- How Have You Been Enjoying Teacher's Screeds Today?”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022:
   • Just as troubling, according to researchers, are the comments that stay within YouTube’s guidelines to avoid getting taken down through the use of coded language in place of hot-button topics and slurs. For instance, some commenters use the term “basketball Americans” rather than a slur against African-Americans and “population replacement” when referring to conspiracies about white genocide. [2018 November 2, Yoree Koh, “Hate Speech on Live ‘Super Chats’ Tests YouTube”, in The Wall Street Journal, New York, N.Y.: Dow Jones & Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 08 Dec 2018:
   • Several more posts were made claiming “affirmative actioners mad” and “basketball Americans mad.” 2020 December 15, Amani Nelson, “When it comes to slavery, the truth won’t set you free”, in The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, Baltimore, Md., archived from the original on 15 Dec 2020:
   • Niggers (or the more politically correct Basketball-Americans) are a sub-human invasive species of simian de-volved from GOOGs (gibbons, orangutangs or gorillas; not bonobos/chimps, a higher life form). 2016 June 3, white-i...@kkk.meeting, “Niggers prepare for Fathers Day”, in alt.fiftyplus (Usenet), archived from the original on 22 Aug 2022:

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