Culture warlords : my journey into the dark web of white supremacy / Talia Lavin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lavin, Talia, author.

Contributor:

EBSCOhost.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lavin, Talia.

White supremacy movements--United States.

White supremacy movements.

Radicalism.

Hate--Social aspects.

Hate.

United States.

Online social networks.

Internet--Political aspects.

Internet.

Radicalism--United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 273 pages)

polychrome

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Hachette Books, 2020.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

*** A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW Editor's Choice/Staff Pick *** TIME MAGAZINE, "100 Must-Read Books of 2020" *** "Lavin is an entertaining Virgil for this neo-Nazi hell...She forges engaging narrative paths through the distant and near history of the alt-right." -- THE NEW YORK TIMES 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Lavin, Talia. Culture warlords.

ISBN:

9780306846441

0306846446

Publisher Number:

40030178768

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Restricted for use by site license.