day of the rope
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.05 in modern English
24
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
1
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
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.
Example Sentences
- ""How will we know when the Day of the Rope has arrived? you ask Timothy McVeigh. You're being serious for a change. Sincere, even. “ According to Pierce, the Day of the Rope is a grim and bloody day, but an unavoidable one."
- "Although these calls are not inherently violent, they feed into a well-established right-wing trope of the ‘day of the rope’, a point when scores will be settled against political opponents."
- "By declaring the Day of the Rope, Earnest clearly hopes others will follow him to action and, presumably, commit mass murder."
- "Under his online persona of "Preston Brooks," Fisher references "the Day of the Rope," a white supremacist fantasy of mass murder, and repeatedly calls for lynching."
- "the day of the rope is coming for the wicked."
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.