• some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy

    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.

    I had already purchased this book after hearing a podcast interview. Then, I heard another interview where Talia stood her ground against some kinda shitty interview tactics by Brianna Grey Joy and realized, oh, I have that book, and I immediately started reading it. It was excellent.

    Shitty podcast interview (which is excellent because of Talia and shitty because of Brianna) here (I tried to find a link to the audio podcast, but it was a pita. You can see part of it on a YouTube link or look for the true audio from Sept 2021 by loading the RSS of the Bad Faith podcast.).

    I won’t thump my chest. I fear violence. But violence is called for and justified regarding these pieces of shit. I’m posting this twice because I want it to be in the main thread and because I’m responding to the Talia-method: see => punch

    • BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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      So I did this but I don’t have a book deal for it, I have a fake white supremacist Facebook account and I infiltrated white supremacists. Have done it since 2015. It’s quite hilarious because they’re all so stupid and they have yet to figure out why they keep getting their accounts banned.