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I was shocked at the closed-minded attitude in this book. The academic jargon was peppered with a role call of internet history, and yet no ideas or even explanation. I had hoped this book would be a starting point for topical and interesting discussion.

Really terrible book. Some value in learning more of the history of the alt right, but her main argument seems to be that young left wing people are so awful we‘re all just as bad as the alt right and should be sorry? She brought out weirdos from weird niche tumblr areas as proof and then never seemed to notice that the alt right examples she gave involved genuinely killing people and the left wing people were just writing silly tumblr posts?

Not a big fan so far but I never give up on books and at least it‘s short. Weird for a book about the rise of the alt right to be so inaccurate and unfair on the progressive online communities that are the opposite of the alt right, and also probably the bulk of the books intended audience.

Uh wow. Nagle has managed to write a book against the alt-right that will REALLY piss off a lot of the alt-right's enemies. The gist: the alt-right took on the mantle of radicalism, transgression & edginess partly reacting to toxic "Tumblr-liberal" identity politics, and contemporary cultural progressivism needs a paradigm shift if it's going to fight. Lots to debate but worth the read, especially as a basic explanation of the alt-right.

God this is true.