Reviews tagging 'Emotional abuse'

Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson

2 reviews

ruthypoo2's review against another edition

challenging emotional informative sad tense medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Violence, and Gun violence

Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Mental illness

katymul's review

challenging dark emotional informative reflective sad medium-paced

4.25

I once read a piece from a reporter on internet stalking and violence that almost every time she traced someone in Nazi or Nazi-esque subgroups through to their turning point, it led back to Gamergate. It made her think how sad it was that the community bluntly refused to take the terrorizing of women seriously or listen to those women about what was really happening and the toll it took. So now it's happening to more and more people.

This book makes that argument about fake news, alternative realities, deep state conspiracies, and the "feral lack of empathy" so often shown. It's convincing.

The story is heartbreaking, and it will happen again. It already is.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mass/school shootings, Gaslighting, Grief, Hate crime, Child death, Emotional abuse, and Suicide

Moderate: Gun violence

Minor: Suicide

This book is hard to read. It is also important.