I hope to attend one of Titania’s book burnings in my home town soon: nothing really exciting has happened here since some witches were hanged in the 17th century. I will, of course, be bringing my old JK Rowlings along!
Mark M
3 years ago
Some of these responses are as funny as the review. But I guess it just shows how far we’ve come when people think it’s a real review.
A real review! And on white paper, no less! I giggled first at the irony, and then cried a little inside when I realised you appear to be correct. Apparently you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it think. First one to the bottom of the purity spiral wins! 😉
Amy Beange
3 years ago
LOL – favourite book review ever! i’m reading the madness of crowds right now and it is making me vomit but this suffering accrues to my wokeness account
davisonfamily68
3 years ago
Problem is, although disguised as satire, many of the views stated actually are used by the undemocratic mob ranting about “rights”, we may not have the Stasi but we do have the “Woke” brigade who can spot an outrage at 1000yds and descend on all who do not follow their religion of correct thoughts and actions- understand one thing, people can identify as whatever they like, but they will still be people.
Fraser Bailey
4 years ago
Ah yes, the book about the death of Conservatism, published in the week when the Tories (according to Mathew Goodwin elsewhere on this site) hit 52% in the polls. When Trump is almost certainly on course to win again and Bernie Sanders’ campaign ended in disaster. When three of the four most popular parties in the Netherlands are centre right or even extreme-right. When a recent poll put Le Pen on 43% in a run-off against Macron, who himself is not exactly left-wing economically. When the Sweden Democrats are leading the polls in Sweden on 27%. When most of eastern Europe – including its young – is becoming increasingly conservative. And one could go on.
James
4 years ago
This article reads as if it’s satire but the byline suggests that it’s genuine. If it’s satirical then it’s hilarious, if it’s genuine then it’s awful… either way I’m rather surprised that UnHerd would allow something so apparently devoid of independent thought, and full of baseless speculation, to be included on the site.
Drahcir Nevarc
4 years ago
“Nor is it confined to the Left: neo-Nazi groups offer some of the clearest examples of purity spirals”
… which suggests that it is confined to the left.
Jeanie K
4 years ago
oh
watsongd
4 years ago
This is terrible, if I look closely I can almost see that “lady’s” nipples and surely being an ecosexual vegan intersectional feminist is a bit 2019.
dlong271
4 years ago
Your very own non sequitur (sorry for using Latin but it is the difference between uneducated and, well, educated): “He completely fails to understand the fundamental point that gender is an arbitrary social construct and has absolutely nothing to do with “biology” (except in the case of trans people who have been born in the wrong body).”
‘Latin’ equals ‘educated’ – hmm, interesting idea. Considering the words ‘chromosome’ and ‘biology’ come from Greek stems, though, I’m going to have to disagree just a bit. If it were me, I’d include our Aolean friends’ lexical influences; then again, maybe I just have an irrational love for the word ‘lemma’.
Adrian Smith
3 years ago
It does not seem that Doug is going to have his collar felt any time soon, despite the disgraceful: “My daddy knows someone high up in the Crown Prosecution Service”. I thought the attitude where spoilt, entitled brats believed their daddies could reshape the world any way their darling offspring wanted, died decades ago when Roald Dahl wrote about Verruca Salt in his wonderful Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Clearly the mentally lives on in those most divorced from all reality.
I therefore suspect that Titania’s ludicrous complaint to the old bill ended up in the round filing cabinet in very short order.
I hope to attend one of Titania’s book burnings in my home town soon: nothing really exciting has happened here since some witches were hanged in the 17th century. I will, of course, be bringing my old JK Rowlings along!
Some of these responses are as funny as the review. But I guess it just shows how far we’ve come when people think it’s a real review.
A real review! And on white paper, no less! I giggled first at the irony, and then cried a little inside when I realised you appear to be correct.
Apparently you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make it think. First one to the bottom of the purity spiral wins! 😉
LOL – favourite book review ever! i’m reading the madness of crowds right now and it is making me vomit but this suffering accrues to my wokeness account
Problem is, although disguised as satire, many of the views stated actually are used by the undemocratic mob ranting about “rights”, we may not have the Stasi but we do have the “Woke” brigade who can spot an outrage at 1000yds and descend on all who do not follow their religion of correct thoughts and actions- understand one thing, people can identify as whatever they like, but they will still be people.
Ah yes, the book about the death of Conservatism, published in the week when the Tories (according to Mathew Goodwin elsewhere on this site) hit 52% in the polls. When Trump is almost certainly on course to win again and Bernie Sanders’ campaign ended in disaster. When three of the four most popular parties in the Netherlands are centre right or even extreme-right. When a recent poll put Le Pen on 43% in a run-off against Macron, who himself is not exactly left-wing economically. When the Sweden Democrats are leading the polls in Sweden on 27%. When most of eastern Europe – including its young – is becoming increasingly conservative. And one could go on.
This article reads as if it’s satire but the byline suggests that it’s genuine. If it’s satirical then it’s hilarious, if it’s genuine then it’s awful… either way I’m rather surprised that UnHerd would allow something so apparently devoid of independent thought, and full of baseless speculation, to be included on the site.
“Nor is it confined to the Left: neo-Nazi groups offer some of the clearest examples of purity spirals”
… which suggests that it is confined to the left.
oh
This is terrible, if I look closely I can almost see that “lady’s” nipples and
surely being an ecosexual vegan intersectional feminist is a bit 2019.
Your very own non sequitur (sorry for using Latin but it is the difference between uneducated and, well, educated): “He completely fails to understand the fundamental point that gender is an arbitrary social construct and has absolutely nothing to do with “biology” (except in the case of trans people who have been born in the wrong body).”
‘Latin’ equals ‘educated’ – hmm, interesting idea. Considering the words ‘chromosome’ and ‘biology’ come from Greek stems, though, I’m going to have to disagree just a bit. If it were me, I’d include our Aolean friends’ lexical influences; then again, maybe I just have an irrational love for the word ‘lemma’.
It does not seem that Doug is going to have his collar felt any time soon, despite the disgraceful: “My daddy knows someone high up in the Crown Prosecution Service”. I thought the attitude where spoilt, entitled brats believed their daddies could reshape the world any way their darling offspring wanted, died decades ago when Roald Dahl wrote about Verruca Salt in his wonderful Charlie and the Chocolate factory. Clearly the mentally lives on in those most divorced from all reality.
I therefore suspect that Titania’s ludicrous complaint to the old bill ended up in the round filing cabinet in very short order.