English Explanatory Dictionary

day of the rope

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. 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.

Word forms

day of the rope

Etymology

* From an incident in Chapter 23 of The Turner Diaries, a 1978 novel by William Luther Pierce, published under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald. In the novel, the Day of the Rope was a day in which tens of thousands of white Americans were publicly hanged for being "race criminals" because of acts such as miscegenation or collaborating with Jews.

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