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Craig Cobb
Craig Cobb (born 1951) is an American white supremacist and neo-Nazi activist known for his failed 2012-2013 attempt to take over Leith, North Dakota, his 2014 terrorizing plea, and a DNA test showing 14% sub-Saharan African ancestry.
Cremation
Cremation is the burning of a dead body to bone fragments and ash, documented from c. 24000 BCE, revived industrially from 1873–1876, now 62.8% of US and 77.4% of Canadian dispositions in 2025, emitting about 210 kg CO2 eq per body.
Critical race theory
Critical race theory (CRT) is a body of legal scholarship, developed in United States law schools in the late 1970s and early 1980s, examining how racism is embedded in legal institutions.
Critical theory
Critical theory is a family of theories aiming to critique and transform society; capitalized, it names the Frankfurt School tradition begun at Frankfurt's Institute for Social Research in the 1930s.
Criticism of Facebook
Criticism of Facebook covers objections to Meta's platform: the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting of 87 million users, mixed mental-health evidence, moderation reversals including the January 2025 end of fact-checking, algorithmic news deprioritization, and EU Digital Services Act addictive-design charges.
Cross burning
Cross burning: setting a cross on fire as intimidation, adopted by the Ku Klux Klan from 1915 (Stone Mountain, Leo Frank lynching); criminalized under federal and state statutes and shaped by Virginia v. Black (2003).
Cross-dressing
Cross-dressing: wearing clothing culturally associated with another gender; a form of gender expression, usually not tied to gender identity, sexual orientation, or erotic activity; distinct from drag performance.
Cruising for sex
Cruising for sex is the search for sexual partners in public spaces, chiefly among men who have sex with men, via coded looks in parks, toilets, and heaths; documented since the 18th century and now largely displaced by geosocial apps that move encounters into homes.
Crush fetish
Crush fetish: sexual arousal from crushing; its animal-harming form, animal crush videos, is banned in the US under 18 U.S.C. § 48 (1999, 2010, PACT 2019), penalty up to 7 years.
Cuckquean
Cuckquean (also cuckqueaning) is the female counterpart of cuckold: historically a wife of an unfaithful husband, recorded from the 1540s, revived today as a consensual kink term.
Cultural appropriation
Cultural appropriation is the taking of practices, symbols, artifacts, dress, music, or knowledge from one culture by members of another, typically across a power imbalance, without consent, credit, or compensation; also called cultural borrowing, distinct from exchange and appreciation.
Cultural discourse about the Gaza genocide
Cultural discourse about the Gaza genocide: academic, media, platform, and public debate over applying the term genocide to Israel's Gaza war since October 2023, including the IAGS 2025 resolution, ICJ proceedings, media framing studies, and content moderation controversies.
Cultural imperialism
Cultural imperialism, also known as cultural colonization, describes how dominant states impose their culture and media on weaker ones, a theory developed by Herbert Schiller in the 1970s.
Culture jamming
Culture jamming: anti-consumerist activist art that subverts ads and corporate messages via subvertising, détournement, and pranks; linked to Negativland, the BLF, BUGA UP, and Adbusters.
Cunnilingus
Cunnilingus is oral sex performed on a woman's vulva, clitoris, or vagina; also called going down on someone. Distinguished from fellatio and anilingus; carries STI risk but little to no HIV risk.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying, or online bullying, is repeated harmful behavior using digital technologies on social media, messaging, and gaming platforms. Distinguished from traditional bullying by reach, persistence, and digital evidence; prevalence estimates vary widely with measurement.
Cybersex
Cybersex, also called Internet sex or online sex, is real-time sexual interaction between two or more people via computer-mediated technologies, a subcategory of online sexual activity. Distinct from passive pornography viewing and from offline sexual activity, it spans typed erotic chat, video exchange, and immersive tech, with research focused on both relationship uses and problematic use.
Cypherpunk
A cypherpunk is a member of a digital privacy movement, centered on a mailing list founded in 1992, that advocates strong encryption and later influenced Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Czech National Revival
The Czech National Revival (Czech: národní obrození) was a cultural movement, roughly from the 1770s to the 1840s or 1850s, in which the modern Czech nation formed within the Habsburg monarchy.
Dad bod
Dad bod (also dadbod) is a slang term for a soft, mildly muscular male physique with a belly, coined in Mackenzie Pearson's viral 2015 Clemson blog post, later studied as a masculinity phenomenon and added to Merriam-Webster in 2025.
Daisy Bates (activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914–1999), Arkansas civil rights leader, NAACP state president, and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, mentored the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 Central High desegregation crisis; honored with a Capitol statue and Daisy Gatson Bates Day.
Dakar–Niger Railway strike
The Dakar–Niger Railway strike, led by Ibrahima Sarr, was a five-month strike by some 20,000 African railway workers across French West Africa that ended in victory in March 1948.
Dan Savage
Dan Savage (born 1964, Chicago) is an American sex-advice columnist, author, and LGBT activist. He created "Savage Love" (The Stranger, 1991), the Savage Lovecast podcast, and co-founded the It Gets Better Project.
Daniel Defert
Daniel Defert (1937-2023), French sociologist and partner of Michel Foucault, founded AIDES in 1984 after Foucault's AIDS death, led the first French anti-AIDS association until 1991, and co-edited Foucault's Dits et écrits.
Daniel Haqiqatjou
Daniel Haqiqatjou, American Muslim writer born in Houston to Iranian parents, founder of The Muslim Skeptic and Alasna Institute, known for anti-feminist, anti-liberal writings and public debates.
Darwin–Wedgwood family
Darwin–Wedgwood family: interconnected English dynasties from Erasmus Darwin and Josiah Wedgwood I, joined by repeated first-cousin marriages; Charles Darwin married cousin Emma Wedgwood in 1839, ten children, inbreeding studies.
Dating
Dating, a twentieth-century American form of courtship between people assessing a relationship, evolved from supervised 'calling' to commercial dates, going steady, the post-1960 sexual revolution, and algorithmic online matching.
David Hogg
David Hogg (born 2000) is an American gun control activist, Parkland shooting survivor, and March for Our Lives co-founder who later served briefly as DNC vice chair in 2025 and founded Leaders We Deserve.
David Lane (white supremacist)
David Eden Lane (1938-2007) was an American white supremacist terrorist, Order member, and convicted killer of Alan Berg who coined the '14 Words' slogan and the 88 Precepts from prison.
David Myatt
David Myatt is a British former neo-Nazi ideologue who converted to Islam in 1998 as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and later renounced extremism through his Pathei-Mathos philosophy.