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"The mass issuance of rape and death threats against women in public life, led by key figures on the alt-right media, is only the froth on the deep lake of bile nurtured by some men. You do not overturn 40,000 years of biologically rigged social control without a backlash. Before we agonise about the racial betrayal white America committed last night, we must understand the gender betrayal runs deeper." (Paul Mason in The Guardian.)

Does "alt-right" mean "extremely right"? Is the relative pronoun "that/which" omitted before the clause "white America committed last night"? Is the conjunction (subordinator/complementizer?) "that" omitted before the clause "the gender betrayal runs deeper" in the above?

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AnonymousDoes "alt-right" mean "extremely right"?

As ever, Wikipedia has the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

AnonymousIs the relative pronoun "that/which" omitted before the clause "white America committed last night"?

Yes.

AnonymousIs the conjunction (subordinator/complementizer?) "that" omitted before the clause "the gender betrayal runs deeper"

Yes. In this case it is an example of quite poor style. "the gender betrayal" is naturally read as the object of "understand". Then when this interpretation is seen not to work out, the reader has to return to the start of the sentence and try again.

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Thank you, GPY, for the reply.

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