Talia Lavin: ‘Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy’

Talia Lavin — a 31-year-old journalist, anti-fascist, and granddaughter of Holocaust survivors — went underground and incognito for more than a year to explore the dark, dangerous world of online alt-right haters. The book that resulted, Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy, was published in October 2020. Publishers Weekly called it a “bracing and wide-ranging look at the internet as a breeding ground for racism and misogyny. Readers with a strong stomach for hateful ideology will find plenty of harrowing takeaways.”
 
Quote: “It’s not pretty, but Lavin is an entertaining Virgil for this neo-Nazi hell. She describes herself as ‘a well-known fascism-hating Twitter loudmouth.’ When she creates alt-right personas — an eligible white supremacist blonde, a lonely ‘involuntary celibate,’ or incel — she has to fully inhabit them. ‘I knew which side I was really on,’ she reassures herself. ‘The side that thought all these creeps were racist losers, but too dangerous to ignore.’ ”
 
Sources: Wikipedia, The New York Times
 
Listen to an NPR interview with Talia Lavin [27:58] >>
 
Read “An Expedition Deep Into an Underworld of Online Hate” >>
 
Read “An audience with Talia Lavin, American Nazi-hunter” >>
 
Photo: Montgomery Blair High School PTSA
 
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