> some people got exposed as promoting white nationalism but then they were called white supremacists in all the reporting Is the difference enough to warrant

> some people got exposed as promoting white nationalism but then they were called white supremacists in all the reporting Is the difference enough to warrant a distinction? Merriam Webster doesn’t bother to make one. The definition of white supremacist is quite clear: > “supporting the belief that white people constitute a superior race, typically to the exclusion or detriment of other racial and ethnic groups.” There’s nothing that necessitates actively claiming the belief. After all, Jim Crow laws were enforced under the guise of separate but equal, but nobody would say they weren’t white supremacist.