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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Refreshing narrative to the deluge of mainstream woke ideas. Saad’s prose is quite fun, too.
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
informative
fast-paced
Book-length rant full of anti-female, anti-gay, anti-Trans, anti-Muslim “humor” cloaked in a seductive “free speech” arguments. The ironic thing is this: Saad claims victim culture has gone too far, while himself authoring this book-length “woe is me, I’m a victim” diatribe.
It’s too bad — he’s smart, but not smart enough to be wise. He is deliberately stoking misunderstanding with diatribes like this one to generate a following on social media. This doesn’t feel like the product of a genuine and honest grappling with the pertinent issues, but instead a Fox News-style bid to enrage and monetize an audience.
Greedy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant.
A good review from someone more patient than me: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3669371926
It’s too bad — he’s smart, but not smart enough to be wise. He is deliberately stoking misunderstanding with diatribes like this one to generate a following on social media. This doesn’t feel like the product of a genuine and honest grappling with the pertinent issues, but instead a Fox News-style bid to enrage and monetize an audience.
Greedy, dishonest, and willfully ignorant.
A good review from someone more patient than me: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3669371926
informative
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funny
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fast-paced
I can attest to having many of my own ideas challenged by those presented by Saad, and I did find some of the evidence he brought to light interesting, and value the book based on its ability to bring me to question some long established ideas of mine. I found a particular smugness and condescension to Saad's tone a little difficult to stomach sometimes, however, and his relaying of Twitter insult wars on occasions distasteful and juvenile.
I also found that Saad represents his own views as always complex and non-binary, whereas the views of the opponents he speaks of, ie, feminists, are always presented on much more of an extreme black and white spectrum, which I feel isn't particularly reflective of the wide range of left-leaning perspectives. The book also seems to gives extensive attention to topics it seems Saad is most personally affected by.
I felt the ideals he presents of science as entirely objective is somewhat of an impossibility, and he doesn't account for the agendas of funding bodies, or agendas behind choosing a particular topic for research over another. Altogether, although the message of the book is one I agree with, encouraging individuals to think for themselves, research and garner truth rather than letting important political and social decisions be governed entirely by emotionality, it would have been more convincing and palatable if he were to approach the issue from a more balanced standpoint, considering some of the strengths of liberal arguments also. Ironically, the complete lack of support or consideration for absolutely any liberal ideas across the book suggests a particular level of emotional bias which Saad claims to despise.
I also found that Saad represents his own views as always complex and non-binary, whereas the views of the opponents he speaks of, ie, feminists, are always presented on much more of an extreme black and white spectrum, which I feel isn't particularly reflective of the wide range of left-leaning perspectives. The book also seems to gives extensive attention to topics it seems Saad is most personally affected by.
I felt the ideals he presents of science as entirely objective is somewhat of an impossibility, and he doesn't account for the agendas of funding bodies, or agendas behind choosing a particular topic for research over another. Altogether, although the message of the book is one I agree with, encouraging individuals to think for themselves, research and garner truth rather than letting important political and social decisions be governed entirely by emotionality, it would have been more convincing and palatable if he were to approach the issue from a more balanced standpoint, considering some of the strengths of liberal arguments also. Ironically, the complete lack of support or consideration for absolutely any liberal ideas across the book suggests a particular level of emotional bias which Saad claims to despise.