Reviews tagging 'Xenophobia'

Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World by Naomi Klein

13 reviews

katharina90's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.5

An interesting read that's particularly strong in its last few chapters where Naomi Klein illustrates the violent bigotry and genocidal tendencies inherent to Europe and its colonial projects.

The book is well written, covers a lot of ground and offers much food for thought. 

Trying to tie all of these topics back to the doppelganger motif at times feels like a stretch? I definitely lost the thread a few times but was captivated by Klein's meandering narrative nonetheless.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Pandemic/Epidemic, Colonisation, Violence, Death, Islamophobia, Ableism, Racism, Antisemitism, Genocide, Sexism, Police brutality, Gun violence, Xenophobia, Slavery, and Sexual violence

Minor: Dementia and War

amachonis's review

challenging informative reflective slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism

Moderate: Racism, Classism, and Xenophobia

Minor: Rape

rissryann's review

challenging dark hopeful informative inspiring medium-paced

5.0

Wow.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Mental illness, Pandemic/Epidemic, Misogyny, Gun violence, Ableism, Colonisation, Xenophobia, War, Genocide, Racism, Police brutality, Homophobia, and Antisemitism

Minor: Rape and Violence

cerysl's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring mysterious reflective sad tense slow-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Deportation, Emotional abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Islamophobia, Sexism, Ableism, Antisemitism, Bullying, Classism, Chronic illness, Colonisation, Cultural appropriation, Death, Gaslighting, Genocide, Forced institutionalization, Gun violence, Homophobia, Medical content, Mass/school shootings, Mental illness, Misogyny, Murder, Pandemic/Epidemic, Physical abuse, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Racism, Religious bigotry, Violence, War, and Xenophobia

aqtbenz's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, War, Xenophobia, Racism, Antisemitism, Colonisation, Misogyny, Classism, and Bullying

serendipitysbooks's review against another edition

challenging informative reflective medium-paced

4.75

 Naomi Klein, a Canadian author known for her social activism and her political analyses, has the misfortune to be mistaken for and confused with Naomi Wolf, a one time feminist turned conspiracy theorist. She has used this as a spur to explore the world Wolf inhabits and to consider why her doppelgänger might have made the choices she has. This is such an incredibly important book. It is all too easy to ignore the anti-vaxxers and conspiracy theorists, to remove them from our social media, cheer when they are deplatformed, and disengage from them in real life. Yet this leaves us with no real idea of what they are thinking, saying, planning and doing which makes us potentially vulnerable. And this loose grouping of at times strange bedmates does have some valid fears and concerns, even if they are not immediately obvious. A book like this is invaluable in bringing this “shadow world” into the light. I was impressed by the scope of this book, and by the way Klein blended introspective personal reflections with logical intellectual analysis. I appreciated the way she highlighted issues within mainstream society such as capitalist greed and corruption and the way these have contributed to the rise of conspiracy theorists. The book does have an American focus, but the issues Klein explores are not only relevant to but essential for democracies everywhere. Doppelgänger is a very worthy inclusion on the shortlist for the Women’s Prize for Non-Fiction. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Gaslighting, Pandemic/Epidemic, Antisemitism, and Xenophobia

oworthyfool's review

challenging emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Antisemitism, Classism, Pandemic/Epidemic, Gaslighting, Ableism, Sexism, Colonisation, Death, Grief, Hate crime, Police brutality, Racial slurs, Rape, Homophobia, Racism, Transphobia, Xenophobia, Genocide, Misogyny, and Toxic relationship

Moderate: Hate crime, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Medical content, Cursing, Death, Injury/Injury detail, Deportation, Bullying, Cultural appropriation, and Police brutality

kirstym25's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Pandemic/Epidemic, Ableism, and Genocide

Moderate: Xenophobia, Antisemitism, and Colonisation

Minor: Eating disorder

fkshg8465's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

5.0

I don’t even know where to start. So many WOW moments for me (I don’t consider the following spoilers, but in case you might, feel free to stop reading here):

1. I had no idea the battle of the Naomis even existed. I was shocked to read about how far down the rabbit hole Naomi Wolf had fallen into, especially because I loved her book The Beauty Myth.
2. I was also shocked to read that Christiane Northrup had sold out. I used to respect these two women so much!
3. I was surprised that Canada wasn’t as free from extreme rightist politics as I thought.
4. I was puzzled as to why Naomi Klein, Naomi Wolf, and Naomi Campbell would be confused. They are so very different women, and even if it’s an aggressive autocorrect, the first letters of their last names aren’t even anywhere close to each other on the keyboard!!

I laughed, even guffawed at parts. I blurt out “EW!” over and over. I applauded. I gasped. I scratched my head. This book had it all. And while I’m both sorry that Naomi Wolf’s mind and body has been kidnapped and replaced by an alien and that Naomi Klein has had to suffer for it, I’m glad it led to this book. And yeah, it was worth staying up all night to finish the book.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Fire/Fire injury, Colonisation, War, Confinement, Fatphobia, Violence, Bullying, Forced institutionalization, Gaslighting, Misogyny, Religious bigotry, Slavery, Hate crime, Pandemic/Epidemic, Police brutality, Genocide, and Xenophobia

booksthatburn's review against another edition

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: War, Antisemitism, Xenophobia, and Racism