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Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy / Talia Lavin.
Loaned to Another Library HS2325 .L38 2020
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lavin, Talia, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Radicalism.
- Hate--Social aspects.
- Hate.
- United States.
- Lavin, Talia.
- White supremacy movements--United States.
- White supremacy movements.
- Online social networks.
- Internet--Political aspects.
- Internet.
- Radicalism--United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 273 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Hachette Books, 2020.
- Summary:
- "Talia Lavin is every skinhead's worst nightmare: a loud and unapologetic Jewish woman, acerbic, smart, and profoundly antiracist, with the investigative chops to expose the tactics and ideologies of online hatemongers. Culture Warlords is the story of how Lavin, a frequent target of extremist trolls (including those at Fox News), dove into a byzantine online culture of hate and learned the intricacies of how white supremacy proliferates online. Within these pages, she reveals the extremists hiding in plain sight online: Incels. White nationalists. White supremacists. National Socialists. Proud Boys. Christian extremists. In order to showcase them in their natural habitat, Talia assumes a range of identities, going undercover as a blonde Nazi babe, a forlorn incel, and a violent Aryan femme fatale. Along the way, she discovers a whites-only dating site geared toward racists looking for love, a disturbing extremist YouTube channel run by a fourteen-year-old girl with over 800,000 followers, the everyday heroes of the antifascist movement, and much more. By combining compelling stories chock-full of catfishing and gate-crashing with her own in-depth, gut-wrenching research, she also turns the lens of anti-Semitism, racism, and white power back on itself in an attempt to dismantle and decimate the online hate movement from within. Shocking, humorous, and merciless in equal measure, Culture Warlords explores some of the vilest subcultures on the Web-and shows us how we can fight back" --Amazon.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 On Hating
- ch. 2 The Jews
- ch. 3 Boots on for the Boogaloo
- ch. 4 Operation Ashlynn
- ch. 5 Adventures With Incels
- ch. 6 That Good Old-Time Religion
- ch. 7 Tween Racists, Bad Beanies, and the Great Casino Chase
- ch. 8 Getting to the Boom: On Accelerations and Violence
- ch. 9 Antifa Civil War
- ch. 10 We Keep Us Safe.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-254) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Lipman Criminology Library Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780306846434
- 0306846438
- OCLC:
- 1139764699
- Publisher Number:
- 99985574534
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