Reviews tagging 'Racism'

Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman

3 reviews

issyd23's review against another edition

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious sad tense medium-paced

4.0

Very different from the Netflix show: more dark, cultish & sad. I thought it would be like Fiddler on the Roof but it was more Handmaids Tale 😢 These Hasids make the Amish look progressive 4📖

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Confinement, Eating disorder, Fatphobia, Gaslighting, Genocide, Gore, Hate crime, Homophobia, Infertility, Medical trauma, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Pedophilia, Physical abuse, Pregnancy, Racism, Religious bigotry, Sexism, Blood, Sexual assault, Sexual content, Sexual harassment, Sexual violence, Toxic relationship, War, Abandonment, Ableism, Antisemitism, Body horror, Body shaming, Bullying, Car accident, and Child abuse

sachimi's review against another edition

I could not bare the ableist language and descriptions, and use of the r word. There were also discriminatory depictions of mental illness and restraint.  There were racist descriptions of black boys with no meaningful discussion around this,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Ableism, Mental illness, Racism, and Sexual violence

piperlee's review against another edition

hopeful reflective slow-paced

4.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Misogyny, Sexual content, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Racism, Ableism, Body shaming, Pedophilia, Panic attacks/disorders, Car accident, Emotional abuse, Sexual assault, Vomit, Child death, and Murder

Minor: Police brutality and Antisemitism