I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join in if you want!
#ABookADay2023
so-soAlthough I agree with much of the premise of this book, I found the premise to be beaten to death. I agree, many well meaning movements have been high jacked. The goal of social movements have been, and should be, to champion those on the fringes to be included among the accepted. There is a vocal minority that want to go beyond that. That point was made in the introduction. Once the point was clear, the rest couldn‘t hold my attention.
Perhaps one reason why people – especially neo-Marxists – are coy about the precise comparisons they are making is that the comparisons they would cite (Venezuela, Cuba, Russia) would reveal the deeper underbelly of their ideology and the true reasons for the negative accounting of the West. But most often the question ‘Compared to what?‘ will elicit only the fact that the utopia with which our society is being compared has not yet come about.
Disagreement is not oppression. Argument is not assault. Words – even provocative or repugnant ones – are not violence. The answer to speech we do not like is more speech.
#faceyourfears Enochlophobia- fear of crowds. Very much an introvert here. #scarathalon #teamstoker @TheReadingMermaid
The Madness of Crowds: Gender, Race and Identity | 
