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day of the rope

day of the rope proper noun: the start of a period of time when the white supremacist community believes it will (or, according to some, has already begun to) take violent vengeance on people of other ethnicities or those it considers race traitors.

Proper noun

day of the rope

  1. The start of a period of time when the white supremacist community believes it will (or, according to some, has already begun to) take violent vengeance on people of other ethnicities or those it considers race traitors.
    • "How will we know when the Day of the Rope has arrived? you ask Timothy McVeigh. You're being serious for a change. Sincere, even. “ According to Pierce, the Day of the Rope is a grim and bloody day, but an unavoidable one.2010, Kenneth Womack, John Doe No. 2 and the Dreamland Motel, page 136
    • Although these calls are not inherently violent, they feed into a well-established right-wing trope of the ‘day of the rope’, a point when scores will be settled against political opponents.2020 June, Benjamin Lee, Kim Knott, “More grist to the mill? Reciprocal radicalisation and reactions to terrorism in the far-right digital milieu”, in Perspectives on Terrorism, volume 14, number 3

Examples of day of the rope in a sentence

  • By declaring the Day of the Rope, Earnest clearly hopes others will follow him to action and, presumably, commit mass murder.2020, Rakib Ehsan, Paul Stott, Far-Right Terrorist Manifestos: A Critical Analysis, page 16:
  • Under his online persona of "Preston Brooks," Fisher references "the Day of the Rope," a white supremacist fantasy of mass murder, and repeatedly calls for lynching.2022, A Antifa, “Bill Fisher: A Case Study in the GOP Mainstreaming of White Power”, in Turning the Tide:
  • the day of the rope is coming for the wicked.2022, Marc Hermann-Cohen, “Gab as Disseminator of Antisemitic Conspiracy Myths and Enabler of Offline Violence”, in Journal of Contemporary...

Origin of day of the rope

* From an incident in Chapter 23 of The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. In the novel, the Day of the Rope was a day in which tens of thousands of white Americans were publicly hanged for being "race criminals" because of acts such as miscegenation or collaborating with Jews.

Questions about day of the rope

What does day of the rope mean?
Day of the rope means the start of a period of time when the white supremacist community believes it will (or, according to some, has already begun to) take violent vengeance on people of other ethnicities or those it considers race traitors.
How do you use day of the rope in a sentence?
By declaring the Day of the Rope, Earnest clearly hopes others will follow him to action and, presumably, commit mass murder.
What part of speech is day of the rope?
Day of the rope is a proper noun.

Words near day of the rope in the dictionary

  1. day of reckoning
  2. Day of Reconciliation
  3. day of rest
  4. Day of the Dead
  5. day of the Lord
  6. day of the rope
  7. Day of the Vow
  8. Day of Valor
  9. day off
  10. day one
  11. day or night

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