alt-light

English

Alternative forms

• alt light, alt-lite

Etymology

Blend of alt-right +‎ light.

Noun

alt-light (plural alt-lights)

1. (Internet, derogatory) 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.

   Coordinate terms: alt-right, alt-center, alt-left

   • 2017, Angela Nagle, chapter 7, in Kill All Normies, Zero Books, →ISBN:

     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.

   • 2018 February 7, Dorian Lynskey, “How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     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.