Meaning of alt-light | Babel Free

Definitions

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.

Internet, derogatory

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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