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We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik
readermeginco's review against another edition
5.0
This was my favorite book of 2020. Every chapter made me slow down and think about the world differently. Simply put, Nesrine Malik is a brilliant young thinker. I cannot recommend this book highly enough.
kindledspiritsbooks's review
5.0
This book is the reason I created a list of books I wish everyone in the world would read - it totally changed how I see the world and I find myself coming back to it again and again.
larly's review
5.0
Easy to read, interesting, enlightening, educational and thought provoking.
I’m sure the one star reviews on Good Reads were all written by someone with a name that sounds like Snial Perguson.
A few reviews said it felt like what was being stated wasn’t anything new, and whilst I sort of agree… technically true… it’s new to some people. We’re all different and need different sources of information to help us digest the knowledge. This is an accessible intro to questioning the narrative.’
It felt like I was giving a standing ovation in my head when I was reading the last few pages.
I’m sure the one star reviews on Good Reads were all written by someone with a name that sounds like Snial Perguson.
A few reviews said it felt like what was being stated wasn’t anything new, and whilst I sort of agree… technically true… it’s new to some people. We’re all different and need different sources of information to help us digest the knowledge. This is an accessible intro to questioning the narrative.’
It felt like I was giving a standing ovation in my head when I was reading the last few pages.
thelauramay's review
5.0
Excellent, excellent, excellent. And I am in AWE of her ability to throw shade so precisely and so thoroughly.
daniellesalwaysreading's review
5.0
A very powerful take down of all the bullshit stories we have been wading through for my entire life, frankly, for as long as people have been fighting for more/equal rights in one form or another.
The most important part of this work is that Malik put into concrete language the reason all the stories about BLM, feminism, identity politics, political correctness are bad faith arguments that are only here to turn perpetrators into victims, to distract from the real issues, and to keep and strengthen the status quo.
The one section that most surprised me with my own obliviousness with her equation of "honor killings" with romantic partner murders in the US. After reading her argument, it is super clear that they are the same thing and I have never equated them before. We shouldn't call them honor killings but rather something like family perpetrated murders.
The most important part of this work is that Malik put into concrete language the reason all the stories about BLM, feminism, identity politics, political correctness are bad faith arguments that are only here to turn perpetrators into victims, to distract from the real issues, and to keep and strengthen the status quo.
The one section that most surprised me with my own obliviousness with her equation of "honor killings" with romantic partner murders in the US. After reading her argument, it is super clear that they are the same thing and I have never equated them before. We shouldn't call them honor killings but rather something like family perpetrated murders.