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A review by stevia333k
The January 6th Report by David Remnick, The January 6th Committee, Jamie Raskin
Did not finish book. Stopped at 3%.
The good news is I listened to it at triple speed & they were concerned about accessiblity. I probably will consider coming back to this book, but I would really need a table of contents so I could read it like an encyclopedia. To say the least, there's been a trend lately of writing things like "hollywood action movies" (not sure from what era), in order to keep things accessible to the broad population, which, I'm not sure how that got executed here, but I'd rather read this than some other works that say they're using a similar strategy.
Now I'm going to leave off my notes about why the first 45 minutes bothered me, combined with some things I heard from other reviews & by doing a ctrl+f on the PDF version of this report.
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So the audience for this report is the people who didn't pay attention to the fascism the past 4 years. It's the people who are still racist, who use slavery dogwhistles like "roman fidelity". It's the people who focus on procedure & WASP centricity so much that they ignore 1492 as a precedent.
There were other dogwhistles in here, and the ignoring of race by this report is going to be super annoying especially since I have 13+ years experiences of going to schools where there was a risk of mass shootings, and the staffers have that experience too. However, the heads apparently have only since January 6, 2021, even though there was a precedent of Henry Clay A&B a fellow peer in an attempted murder on the congressional floor in the 1840's. i have 11 years more experience than them. The younger survivors of the preK-12 system have more experience than me. People who've been in the ghettos have more experience than me. But even I have more experience than the people doing this report.
There were some other dogwhistles in here too, but their talk about fatigue is really shortsighted because it's the material conditions not the words. We knew this shit for years, and they did nothing to take him out.
Now I'm going to leave off my notes about why the first 45 minutes bothered me, combined with some things I heard from other reviews & by doing a ctrl+f on the PDF version of this report.
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So the audience for this report is the people who didn't pay attention to the fascism the past 4 years. It's the people who are still racist, who use slavery dogwhistles like "roman fidelity". It's the people who focus on procedure & WASP centricity so much that they ignore 1492 as a precedent.
There were other dogwhistles in here, and the ignoring of race by this report is going to be super annoying especially since I have 13+ years experiences of going to schools where there was a risk of mass shootings, and the staffers have that experience too. However, the heads apparently have only since January 6, 2021, even though there was a precedent of Henry Clay A&B a fellow peer in an attempted murder on the congressional floor in the 1840's. i have 11 years more experience than them. The younger survivors of the preK-12 system have more experience than me. People who've been in the ghettos have more experience than me. But even I have more experience than the people doing this report.
There were some other dogwhistles in here too, but their talk about fatigue is really shortsighted because it's the material conditions not the words. We knew this shit for years, and they did nothing to take him out.