Definitions
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- adjective Of or pertaining to
self -hate ; showing hatred to oneself.
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Examples
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And when I do hear it for myself I become what is known as a self-hating Jew.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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They we used to be called "self-hating Jews" but since that didn't shut us up, the hope is that this will.
MJ Rosenberg: Predictions for 2012 MJ Rosenberg 2011
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Despite his "sound of Blackness" Cain had been successful reaching a broader audience than expected, in large part of his deft negotiation of racial nostalgia and racial accommodation -- none which makes him any less Black or so-called self-hating, but simply more willing to work within the constraints of a highly racialized society, on that society's terms.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Mark Anthony Neal 2011
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What kind of self-hating women marries these troglodytes?
Think Progress » Kansas lawmaker compares rape to auto theft. 2010
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There's good reason I'm only 60% through, but I'm very much enjoying the experience (albeit in a self-hating way, sometimes).
How To Kill People More Effectively In Far Cry 2 Ben Abraham 2009
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The play's title refers to Kristallnacht, it's set in 1938, and it solves the mystery of why Sylvia has lost the use of her legs: Thanks to these dazzling performances, you can just about accept Miller's slightly humorless conclusion, conveyed in typical bravura fashion by Mr. Sher, that her illness is caused by the Hitler that lurks inside every impotent, self-hating Jewish husband.
The Witty Bits of a Play Paul Levy 2011
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Someone said her friends claimed everyone who spoke out against Israeli treatment of Palestinians was a self-hating Jew (if Jewish) or anti-Semitic (though Palestinians are Semites, too).
Archive 2009-08-01 Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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But he should have known that his was yet more fodder for the self-hating White liberals.
Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’ 2010
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Someone said her friends claimed everyone who spoke out against Israeli treatment of Palestinians was a self-hating Jew (if Jewish) or anti-Semitic (though Palestinians are Semites, too).
Overcoming Speechlessness: A Poet Encounters "the horror" in Rwanda, Eastern Congo and Palestine/Israel Alice Walker Blog Administrator 2009
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Considine had proved himself with his 2007 Bafta-winning short Dog Altogether, which starred Mullan as Joseph, a violent, widowed, unemployed self-hating drunk who meets a middle-class housewife Colman in a charity shop.
Paddy Considine: 'I'm trying to make sense of a lot of things' 2011
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