day of the rope

Definitions

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.

Examples

“"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.”

“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.”

“By declaring the Day of the Rope, Earnest clearly hopes others will follow⟳ him to action and, presumably, commit mass murder⟳.”

“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.”

“the day of the rope is coming for the wicked.”

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