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#* {{quote-book|en|title=Kill All Normies|author=Angela Nagle|year=2017|publisher=Zero Books|isbn=978-1-78-535543-1|chapter=7|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|title=Kill All Normies|author=Angela Nagle|year=2017|publisher=Zero Books|isbn=978-1-78-535543-1|chapter=7|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|date=2018-02-07|author=Dorian Lynskey|title=How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest|passage=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.}}
#* {{quote-web|en|date=2018-02-07|author=Dorian Lynskey|title=How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?|work=The Guardian|url=https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/feb/07/how-dangerous-is-jordan-b-peterson-the-rightwing-professor-who-hit-a-hornets-nest|passage=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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Revision as of 03:17, 19 November 2021

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

Blend of alt-right +‎ light.

Noun

alt-light (uncountable)

  1. (politics, Internet, derogatory) A nebulous grouping of people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, who are largely aligned with the alt-right but reject anti-Semitism and accept Jews as part of Western society.
    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.