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    Looking for a book to help steer my friend (30f) off of the alt-right pipeline. Since meeting her husband a few years ago, she has started to turn into someone I don't recognize. She's very smart and still receptive to hearing ideas counter to the ones she is starting to believe. We've had many conversations where i've introduced ideas like the wellness to alt-right/eugenics pipeline.

    About her: she's an aesthetician, currently pregnant, daughter of a first-generation greek immigrant (who did it the "right" way), and a first generation mexican immigrant. Her husband is a white, catholic, finance bro from the midwest. He's really nice and really smart but shaped by his conservative upbringing (i think he might be open to learning as well, given the right book).

    She has fallen into "mommy content" world, started to idolize Candace Owens, talking about "men in women's spaces," "the feminization of men," "teaching kids about sex in school," general anti-vax and TERF / anti-trans remarks. The thing is, some of her criticisms are based in real worries (regarding hyper individualism, the war in gaza, it being up vs down rather than left vs right, etc), but she is being distracted from the true issues by inflammatory, alt-right talking points. I have encouraged her to get off of social media, because these changes feel almost algorithmic.

    TLDR; Please help me find a book to steer her back to the real issues at hand, rather than ones that have been set up to distract her (TERF, gender roles, protecting the children, men in women's sports, candace owens)

    by GroundbreakingBus460

    4 Comments

    1. someminorexceptions on

      Ever stop to think for a moment that as an intelligent and informed woman she’s entitled to her own opinions and you’re the one in need of “re-education”.

    2. Strong-Usual6131 on

      Pink-pilled: Women and the Far Right by Lois Shearing

      Doppelganger by Naomi Klein

      The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood

      I’m really sorry to hear about your friend, it might be worth checking out some deradicalisation/cult deprogramming books as well.

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