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melchncookies's review against another edition
5.0
bert22's review against another edition
3.75
donutcome4me's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Violence, Racism, Sexism, and Racial slurs
klsreads's review against another edition
3.5
"To those who find themselves uncomfortable with the operation of antifascists outside the comfortable bounds of institutions and, at times, the law, I remind you that the French partisans of World War II were acting illegally, while the Einsatzgruppen had the full support of German law. We tend to like our noble lawbreakers to be comfortably in the past, where time and death have sanitized them into heroes, and to suffer those who struggle against injustice in the present only grudgingly, if at all."
Graphic: Emotional abuse, Mental illness, Police brutality, Cursing, Ableism, Body horror, Racial slurs, Gaslighting, Body shaming, Sexism, Fatphobia, Homophobia, Racism, Misogyny, Transphobia, Animal cruelty, Antisemitism, Animal death, Blood, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, Genocide, Death, Suicide, Stalking, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Islamophobia, Murder, Physical abuse, Rape, Suicidal thoughts, Violence, Self harm, Slavery, Hate crime, War, Xenophobia, Sexual harassment, Torture, and Religious bigotry
Moderate: Child death and Pandemic/Epidemic
jeansbookbag's review against another edition
3.0
catnapping's review against another edition
2.75
While the history and background provided was important, it lacked cohesiveness and was in need of better editing. After one incident when the same phrase was defined three times in the span of 5 minutes the lack of both storytelling finesse and editing became pointedly unbearable.
Given the heaviness of the subject, these issues made an already hard read harder.
Graphic: Xenophobia, Antisemitism, Misogyny, Body shaming, Islamophobia, Bullying, and Racism
Moderate: Mass/school shootings, Rape, Violence, and Stalking
Minor: Police brutality
tobestik's review against another edition
1.0
I won't deny or argue that the topic of this book and the author's perspective are incredibly important. She has a perspective and a story that absolutely should be told.
However, no part of this read like an actual deep dive or research into a topic as was promised.
I also agree with other reviewers that the book is more of an amalgamation of articles haphazardly thrown into a book than an actual planned book. Ideas jump around and end abruptly.
There's only about 20 pages actually about the author interacting with white supremacist groups, the rest is disjointed flavor text of events that happened. A few to the author, sure, but mostly just things that did happen throughout history or recently.
If you've followed the news even slightly in the last 5 years, you know about every event discussed. I use discussed loosely as really they're just presented with a tone of: "This happened. Wild huh?" And then the book moves on.