alt-lite
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Noun[edit]
alt-lite
- Alternative spelling of alt-light.
- 2016 November 6, Jonathan Mahler, Julie Turkewitz, “Donald Trump’s Extremist Supporters Feel Like Winners Either Way”, in New York Times:
- Mr. Spencer predicted that the conservative movement’s broader embrace of the far right could start with news media outlets adding what he described as “alt-lite” hosts.
- 2017 August 21, “Protesters get heavy with ‘alt-lite’ rally”, in Metro News UK:
- The speakers described themselves as ‘alt-lite’, disassociating themselves with white supremacists.
- 2018 January 22, J Oliver Conroy, “An evening with 'deplorables': inside the alt-right party in Manhattan”, in The Guardian:
- While the “alt-lite” may have successfully distanced itself from the worst extremists, it can sometimes seem unclear exactly how “lite” the new movement is.
- 2018 December 2, Jonathan Wolfson, “Opinion: Dinesh D’Souza event degrades quality of academic dialogue at AU”, in The Eagle:
- While he claims it was an accident -- because who among us hasn’t accidentally tweeted hate speech multiple times -- it does highlight the biggest danger D’Souza poses: the “alt-lite” to alt-right pipeline.