alt-light
English
Alternative forms
- alt light
- alt-lite
Etymology
Blend of alt-right + light.
Noun
alt-light (uncountable)
- (politics, Internet, derogatory) A nebulous grouping of people and ideologies, mostly active on the internet, aligned with the alt-right but considered inauthentic by some in the alt-right.
- Coordinate terms: alt-right, alt-center, alt-left
- 2018 February 7, Dorian Lynskey, “How dangerous is Jordan B Peterson, the rightwing professor who 'hit a hornets' nest'?”, in The Guardian:
- 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.