Reviews tagging 'Antisemitism'

Im Grunde gut: Eine neue Geschichte der Menschheit by Rutger Bregman

7 reviews

littki's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Racism, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, War, Colonisation, Homophobia, Violence, Genocide, Murder, Slavery, Grief, Sexism, Gun violence, Hate crime, Antisemitism, and Misogyny

Minor: Cannibalism

ajcham01's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

One of my favorite books of all time. An inspiring read from start to finish that encourages us to take on the brave and difficult task of trusting one another and choosing peace, kindness, and collaboration within systems that assume we will do the opposite. 

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Content Warnings

Minor: Racism, War, Xenophobia, Gun violence, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Genocide, and Police brutality

toffishay's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective sad fast-paced

4.75

A really moving read! It makes me sad to think about how far we have falling, how society has taken away so much of our humanity, but I feel hopeful from the historical examples and inspired by the modern ones of the ways that people have and will continue to love and fight for each other. I want to take this energy and go out into my community! Be a realistic; make the world a better place :) What stops this from being a full 5 star read for me, is only that I would have appreciated more intersectionality in the applications of these ideas and I think that further reading could provide that.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Xenophobia, Death, Genocide, Classism, Antisemitism, War, Hate crime, Murder, Injury/Injury detail, Violence, Racism, Grief, Blood, Gun violence, and Colonisation

Minor: Mental illness, Suicide, Alcoholism, Slavery, Islamophobia, Addiction, Fatphobia, Suicide attempt, and Religious bigotry

piaura's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

4.75

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Violence, Genocide, Death, Antisemitism, and Gun violence

Minor: Colonisation, Racism, Islamophobia, and Hate crime

littlecat's review against another edition

informative

2.0

I wish I liked it more, I heard a lot of good things about it so maybe my expecations where just to high, I admit I skipped some parts mostly in the middle cause the structure felt a bit disjointed and repetive.
I actually agree with the core ideas of this book, that its more helpful to see people as "Good" that humans are social but that we are social in a way that means we care for our people first and the trick is to make us realize every human is a human like us and with that "our people",
but maybe this general agreement made the parts that irked me stand out much more then they maybe should.
  

-its like one sentence but the one is like:
-"ADHS is just an excuse to pump kids full of drugs" I think the social model of disablities has a lot of use, I think a lot of time when a person becomes "a problem" we should look how society is a problem for them, and see if we can fix it that way, but medication is not a scam in its enternity, I dont take Ritalin or something a like but I heard from so many first hand how freeing it is to find the playing field a bit more equal and to be able to modulate their stimuli and with that their tasks better
-simelar short  but very personal to me relativly in the beginning something wondering about the curious case that is humans white eyeball showing: "without eye contact like this, seeing where peoples eyes look, how could we trus eachother=be human?" and "Neanderthaler didnt have as strong of a subtle eyebrow game as homo sapiens sapiens thats why they died out" here is a thing, I dont do eye contact, its like actual hurting me when I try, and I have heard about all this micro expression and shit but I have bad eyesight anyway, and also what about blind people arent they human? and the author backpedals right at the end with "compassion is much more helpful then emphaty" and I strongly agree with that, but there is this too in the book, like just one way of showing stuff is legit
-1) "savety regulations are bad actually" just nope. old car wrecks and fires are nice for kids to play that doesnt mean you shouldnt check if stuff is actually dangerous.
and more in general when talking about structural problems in child educatio, I just had to think of a bit from Socialism seriously? that i really liked when the author described a bad day under their utopia idea, vs this focus on kids who still excelled in a measureable way in this schools, what about people who are just medicore? or not even that? it just leaves a bad taste in my mouth

 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Death, Confinement, Murder, and Forced institutionalization

Moderate: Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Antisemitism, Slavery, Xenophobia, Genocide, Violence, Bullying, Hate crime, Racism, Torture, and Child abuse

Minor: Rape and Suicide

ghost_rider's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: War, Genocide, Xenophobia, Violence, Slavery, Racism, Police brutality, Murder, Bullying, and Antisemitism

gwells509's review against another edition

hopeful informative inspiring reflective fast-paced

4.5

I definitely needed this book right now especially after the last 5 years of global politics and a pandemic. 

Brought back my hope for humanity and solidified my belief that humans are good, actually. I think there are points where it maybe didn't go into quite as much detail as I would have liked (or was perhaps necessary) and some things were glossed over, but I also think that makes it very accessible to the masses who I think should all definitely give this book a read. 

Excited to get my own copy to annotate!

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Antisemitism, War, and Gun violence

Minor: Sexual assault