Supremacism

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Supremacism is the belief that a particular race, religion, gender, belief system or culture is superior to others and entitles those who identify with it to dominate, control or rule those who do not. Examples include supremacism based on ethnic or anthropological origins (white supremacy, black supremacy, ethnocentrism), sexuality (male supremacy, female supremacy, straight supremacism) and religion (see below).

Contents

1 Beliefs and ideas
2 Attempts at justification
3 Supremacist groups

3.1 Racial supremacist groups
3.2 Religious supremacist groups

4 See also

Beliefs and ideas

There is a distinction to be made between supremacism and the holding of beliefs. If someone believes something is true whilst someone else believes it is false, each will probably regard the evidence and reasoning for his or her belief to be superior (more informed, more considered) than that of the other. For instance, if person X believes the Earth is flat whilst person Y believes it isn't, X would probably consider the evidence and reasoning for his or her belief to be superior to that of Y.

Supremacism, however, goes much further than this. A supremacist not only holds that any evidence and reasoning for his or her beliefs is superior to any other, but that those holding such beliefs have rights over those who do not.

Attempts at justification

Following the development of theories such as evolution and eugenics, supremacists have sought scientific justification for their views through notions such as Social Darwinism. The most notorious and far-reaching example is probably the Nazi belief in an Aryan master race, which ultimately led to the the Holocaust.

Supremacist groups

The following groups, listed alphabetically, have been described as supremacist:^{[[Citing sources citation needed]]}

Racial supremacist groups

Name	Supremacist ideology
New Black Panthers	black (also anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic)
Creativity Movement	white
German-American Bund	white
Ku Klux Klan	white (also anti-Semitic, anti-Catholic)
Nation of Islam / Nation of Gods and Earths	black (also Islamic)
Janjaweed	Arab supremacist
Nazis, Neo-Nazis	white (Aryan)
MEChA	chicano (anti-non-Hispanic White American)
Goldsea	East Asian (anti-white)
European Liberation Front	European (anti-Semitic)
Mexica Movement	Nican Tlaca (anti-European American)
White Aryan Resistance	non-Jewish European

Religious supremacist groups