CULTURE WARLORDSMy Journey Into the Dark Web of White SupremacyBy Talia LavinTalia Lavin wants to fight Nazis. In her first book, “Culture Warlords,” Lavin takes us down a hate-filled online rabbit hole to visit the world of contemporary neo-Nazis: where they came from, how they communicate, who has turned murderous, what their mixed-up memes mean. She is uneasy about the way she and her friends are targeted; she takes measures to shield her family. “I could feel the borders between my life and the hate I studied becoming porous.”Lavin herself has been a target of the alt-right, so she knows the costs well. It actually indicated his service in Afghanistan — a mistake that caused such an uproar that Lavin resigned from her fact-checking job at The New Yorker.

Source: New York Times October 27, 2020 16:41 UTC