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A review by daniellesalwaysreading
We Need New Stories: Challenging the Toxic Myths Behind Our Age of Discontent by Nesrine Malik
5.0
A very powerful take down of all the bullshit stories we have been wading through for my entire life, frankly, for as long as people have been fighting for more/equal rights in one form or another.
The most important part of this work is that Malik put into concrete language the reason all the stories about BLM, feminism, identity politics, political correctness are bad faith arguments that are only here to turn perpetrators into victims, to distract from the real issues, and to keep and strengthen the status quo.
The one section that most surprised me with my own obliviousness with her equation of "honor killings" with romantic partner murders in the US. After reading her argument, it is super clear that they are the same thing and I have never equated them before. We shouldn't call them honor killings but rather something like family perpetrated murders.
The most important part of this work is that Malik put into concrete language the reason all the stories about BLM, feminism, identity politics, political correctness are bad faith arguments that are only here to turn perpetrators into victims, to distract from the real issues, and to keep and strengthen the status quo.
The one section that most surprised me with my own obliviousness with her equation of "honor killings" with romantic partner murders in the US. After reading her argument, it is super clear that they are the same thing and I have never equated them before. We shouldn't call them honor killings but rather something like family perpetrated murders.