Culture Warlords

This is more a compilation of essays rather than a cohesive book, and while it derails too much to the personal on the author side, it shows devastating proof of how the hate support groups organise in the Internet depths.

I think the title is not really accurate and a bit bait when they refer to “dark web”, as obscure Telegram chats and Facebook groups do not really qualify as dark web in my opinion. In that aspect I found the reading and investigation quite superficial.

Overall is a quick read and brings you up to speed on white supremacist groups, their origins and attitudes, specially in the US.

Note: I did read the Spanish translation of this book, which I found quite inaccurate at stages.

Troubling and compelling.

This book is a memoir of the author's experiences reporting on white supremacy. It is not an analysis of white supremacy, nor does it offer any insights into how it became such a driving force in modern American politics.

I was hoping to come away with a better understanding of why people turn to hate groups and some ideas about how to combat a dangerous movement, but that's not what this book is about. It's an interesting memoir and I think it's valuable to see how senseless hate affects its targets, so I do think this book was worth reading.

Intense but excellent account of a mixture of personal experience with white supremacists (usually but not always under an assumed identity, via the internet) and 19th and 20th century and contemporary history.