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ethnomasochistic en · ADJ

Etymology

From ethno- + masochistic.

Meanings

1. (derogatory) self-loathing on the grounds of one's own race
   • This is nothing less than the inversion of meaning through the perversion of perception. It is the sacrificing of Shakespeare on the altar of the ethnomasochistic angst that is the bane of postmodernism. 2016, Joseph Pearce, Through Shakespeare's Eyes:
   • How, then, are ethnomasochistic WASPs to be “saved,” above all from themselves? 2011, Andrew Fraser, The WASP Question, page 326:
   • Our decadent, ethnomasochistic society cannot, however, avoid forging pseudo-heroes or sub-heroes: football players, soap opera stars, humanitarian doctors, […] 2011, Guillaume Faye, Why We Fight: Manifesto of the European Resistance, page 156:

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