Dead White European Male

noun

1. a man whose importance and talents may have been exaggerated because he belonged to a historically dominant gender and ethnic group

Example Sentences

It doesn’t matter if you have canceled Wagner and every domineering dead, white, European male thing about him.

From Los Angeles Times

The point being not that it is politically correct, or according to the books of some long dead white European male, but that it actually works.

From Forbes

The rebellion against Dead White European Male authors has by now turned itself into a campus cliche, but that doesn't mean it has gone away.

From Time Magazine Archive