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Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy by Talia Lavin

5 reviews

meigs's review against another edition

Couldn’t get through this. I got about 1/4 of the way through and decided to stop because it was just too much. I think if you’re not aware of this stuff online it will be an important read. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, and Antisemitism

collins1129's review

dark informative fast-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Adult/minor relationship, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Biphobia, Body shaming, Bullying, Cursing, Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gore, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Mental illness, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Self harm, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Blood, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, Religious bigotry, Stalking, Suicide attempt, Murder, Lesbophobia, Cultural appropriation, Gaslighting, Sexual harassment, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail

deepcurvesahead's review

This book was just too much for me to read right now. I may try again in the future. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Bullying, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Violence, Antisemitism, and Stalking

amarchetta's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective

3.0

I’m glad I read this book because it reflected the grueling work the author did in her research. It was difficult to get through due to the weight of the material present. I hate to give this a lower star rating because of the incredible insights the author could provide, but I didn’t find the flow/format of the book very readable. I can’t say anyone would enjoy reading the vicious hate spewed by the book’s subjects, but the work itself wasn’t as engrossing as I had hoped. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Fatphobia, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Slavery, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Transphobia, Violence, Xenophobia, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Mass/school shootings, and Religious bigotry

ehmannky's review

challenging dark emotional informative inspiring medium-paced

4.75

 I'm going to be thinking about this book for a long while. Lavin documents the various ways in which white supremacy has become a global movement online and the ways in which tech companies such as YouTube and Twitter are complicit in that. She follows the history of white supremacy, tangled with antisemitism, and how it is fed by misogyny, homophobia, and a deep-seeded racial hatred towards anyone who isn't a very specific kind of white person. I felt a deep respect for Lavin's willingness to go undercover and submerge herself in the rampant abuse in order to show everyone what this culture is and why it's so dangerous to ignore it and allow it to grow. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Animal cruelty, Animal death, Bullying, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Homophobia, Misogyny, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexism, Sexual assault, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, and Mass/school shootings