Meaning of alt-right | Babel Free

Definitions

1. An amorphous movement of right-wing white nationalists opposed to multiculturalism and egalitarianism by race and sex, mostly active on the Internet.
   uncountable
2. A member of the alt-right; an alt-righter.
   countable, rare

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Examples

“So a right without a Buckley will probably be smaller, and uglier to boot. I would expect⟳ this alt-right to be a lot more vigorously opposed to the civil rights movement than OTL's. It will also be much less relevant, and probably not snag a certain Californian actor. I predict⟳, then, that America, on the whole, looks a bit more like⟳ a Western European social democracy, but with a right wing that looks (hmm...thinking...) well, looks almost fascist.”

“"But the cultural conflict between these two post-revolutionary styles — between frat guys and feminist bluestockings, Gamergaters and the diversity police, alt-right provocateurs and 'woke' dudebros, the mouthbreathers who poured hate⟳ on the all-female 'Ghostbusters' and the tastemakers who pretended it was good — is likely here to stay⟳."”

“The choice is between a polemicist with deep ties to the alt-right movement, or a conventional policy professional with an open⟳ channel to the political establishment that Trump ran against, but which he needs to pass⟳ an agenda.”

“At the risk⟳ of putting my own⟳ work⟳ out of date⟳, I believe⟳ that chapter of the alt-right story that my book was about—the anonymous online trolling culture, the constant evasions and ironic styles, the hodge-podge of disparate groups united by the “anti-PC” crusade—is over and a new one has begun. The alt-right in the strict sense⟳ will now become⟳ more isolated, more focused and unambiguous—and perhaps more militant.”

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