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Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America by Kathleen Belew
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stevia333k's review against another edition
informative
tense
4.75
So youtubers have already covered this book. It's helpful for covering various memes in white supremacist patriarchal capitalist media.
I also want to mention there are books about anti-blackness that can make some of the points more concisely (like Carol Anderson in "The Second" pointed out how during pogroms against black neighborhoods local police were more likely to act like disarming black people would make the pogromers calm down when instead it only accelerated the pogrom. There's also how the enthusiastic militias but reluctant army showed how white supremacists were enthusiastic about killing black people.)
Basically I figured out recently that I was being groomed by nazis & Reaganites for what is currently the majority of my life.
I had looked up clips of the Denver DJ that got assassinated the uploaded clips were mainly being covered & commented on by nazis. So I feel like the book swallows Nazi boot in the name of descriptivism at times.
I'm impressed by how the book made points like how childcare & first aid was handled, how it challenged racist media narratives of terrorists being "alone in the woods" by asking things like how did these people get fed etc. It's also cool how the book explained to me (someone born after the 1980's) that there was a false calm from the white nationalist churches being defunded because apparently churches had the role the internet has now.
I also want to mention there are books about anti-blackness that can make some of the points more concisely (like Carol Anderson in "The Second" pointed out how during pogroms against black neighborhoods local police were more likely to act like disarming black people would make the pogromers calm down when instead it only accelerated the pogrom. There's also how the enthusiastic militias but reluctant army showed how white supremacists were enthusiastic about killing black people.)
Basically I figured out recently that I was being groomed by nazis & Reaganites for what is currently the majority of my life.
I had looked up clips of the Denver DJ that got assassinated the uploaded clips were mainly being covered & commented on by nazis. So I feel like the book swallows Nazi boot in the name of descriptivism at times.
I'm impressed by how the book made points like how childcare & first aid was handled, how it challenged racist media narratives of terrorists being "alone in the woods" by asking things like how did these people get fed etc. It's also cool how the book explained to me (someone born after the 1980's) that there was a false calm from the white nationalist churches being defunded because apparently churches had the role the internet has now.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Biphobia, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Racial slurs, Racism, Sexism, Sexual violence, Torture, Toxic relationship, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Stalking, Murder, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, and War
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