Reviews tagging 'Islamophobia'

The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein

6 reviews

brynalexa's review against another edition

challenging dark emotional informative sad medium-paced

4.25

A very important read and extremely relevant now with the current genocide of the Palestinian people. It’s all connected. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Genocide, Gun violence, Police brutality, Hate crime, Torture, Violence, Colonisation, Confinement, Death, War, Deportation, Islamophobia, Murder, Sexual violence, Slavery, Classism, Racism, and Xenophobia

ccerpa's review against another edition

5.0

So damn good… she had me hooked and coming back to listen (to the audiobook) whenever I had a free moment, which is often hard for me with non-fiction books, much less one about economics! This has been in my TBR list since 2020 and I’m ashamed it took me so long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, War, Islamophobia, Torture, Medical trauma, and Colonisation

zosiablue's review against another edition

dark informative sad slow-paced

5.0

7000 stars. I'm always going to remember reading this slowly over two months at Wild Grind each morning as summer turned to fall, and feeling the most bonkers emotions from grief to rage to hope. There has never been a book that so cleanly makes the case that free market capitalism and the US's involvement in "rebuilding" other countries is a blatant and cruel scam. And this was published in 2007! To know what's transpired since publication is to know the worst was yet to come. Astonishing,

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Islamophobia, Classism, Colonisation, Forced institutionalization, Genocide, Torture, War, and Xenophobia

spicewitch's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense medium-paced

4.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Colonisation, Mental illness, Islamophobia, Medical trauma, Xenophobia, Death, Police brutality, Torture, Genocide, Injury/Injury detail, War, Violence, Trafficking, and Physical abuse

ka_cam's review against another edition

challenging informative medium-paced

5.0

Everyone should read this book! Readable, informative. Wish there was an afterword with updates from the 2010s or 2020s

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Content Warnings

Minor: Addiction, Racism, Death, Colonisation, Classism, Confinement, Cultural appropriation, Domestic abuse, Genocide, Violence, Deportation, Gun violence, Islamophobia, Kidnapping, Rape, Religious bigotry, Trafficking, Sexism, Slavery, and War

zombiezami's review against another edition

challenging dark informative reflective tense slow-paced

4.75

Klein masterfully ties a lot of seemingly disparate events together in a clear and understandable way. Since so many of the events she describes happened either right before I was born or when I was a small child, I am grateful to have this context, since I didn't learn most of this in school. I only wish that she had commented more on the role of trade agreements. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Torture, Islamophobia, Violence, Child death, Death, Genocide, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, Suicide, Xenophobia, Religious bigotry, Police brutality, Mass/school shootings, Kidnapping, Gun violence, Grief, Gore, Forced institutionalization, Emotional abuse, Blood, Physical abuse, and Racism

Moderate: Alcoholism, Car accident, Medical content, Medical trauma, and Mental illness

Minor: Sexual violence