alt-light
alt-light noun: a nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
Noun
alt-light
- A nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
- It [new atheism] was one of the predecessors to the alt-light, with an underlying Christopher Hitchens style of hitting out at the irrational and the faithful.2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN
- He is also adored by figures on the so-called alt-light (basically the “alt-right” without the sieg heils and the white ethnostate), including Mike Cernovich, Gavin McInnes and Paul Joseph Watson.2018 February 7, Dorian Lynskey, “How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?”, in The Guardian
Forms of alt-light
| alternative form | alt light |
|---|---|
| alternative form | alt-lite |
Origin of alt-light
Blend of alt-right + light. Analysable as alt- + light.
Questions about alt-light
- What does alt-light mean?
- Alt-light means a nebulous grouping of far-right people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject explicit white nationalism and anti-Semitism.
- What part of speech is alt-light?
- Alt-light is a noun.
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