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I’m about halfway through and I’m really disliking the mom/judge character. She’s so daft I’m not sure how she ever made it through law school. Also I don’t see the point of having her perspective or the long unrelated anecdotes of her personal history.

I first picked this up as a high school student almost twenty years ago, and I remember liking the vibe but not understanding the lore, history, and philosophy enough to appreciate the story, so I didn’t finish book 1. Now I’m so glad I restarted the book again. “Wonder” is the word that comes to mind. I’m only a few chapters in but man this would make an amazing TV series.

This had a good start but outstayed its welcome 100 pages or so ago. I’ve still got about 60 pages left and am just skimming them to get to the conclusion.

I’m currently dubious about Storr’s tracing of the self in history. You can’t just go from Greek city states to Christianity without talking about Alexander the Great and Rome! Rome had a huge influence on the development of the Christian self and the Roman self was an evolved idea of the Greek one.

Just finished reading about the police free neighbourhood in Seattle. I didn’t know anything about it at all but gods those protesters made me angry and I feel so sorry for those small business owners just trying to earn a living and having hooligans come in and break their windows and threaten their lives in the name of “social justice”

A gish-galloping whine-fest full of half-truths and speculation, with dubious sources and even more dubious conclusions. Perez Criado is your classic victim feminist who, while being more privileged than most men in the world, revels in her victimhood as being her greatest and only virtue. It’s a shame I can’t give this negative ratings.

I’ve just started but OMG the mother is TOXIC. Also I feel like the author doesn’t know much about marketing. I can’t see how a picture of the owners in front of the shop without product would actually help sell product.

While his sentences are a bit long, Professor McWhorter makes a good point about how this new wave of anti racism led by people like Robin DiAngelo doesn’t only not help Black Americans— and it can also be applied to other visible minorities— it actually harms them by setting them up to see themselves as victims.

I want to throw this book against the wall but I’m reading it on my phone. This is the most painfully ludicrous thing I’ve read outside of Trump tweets. There’s so much unquantifiable waffling and a lack of historical understanding beyond America in the last 200 years. Maybe her book might have merit if published in the 40s but right now it’s just concerning that so many people are taking her words to heart.

“... a free person should never learn anything under the condition of slavery... a lesson forced on the soul is never retained.” Take that, tiger parents!