The Cruelty Is the Point

A long and detailed list of grievances about how the people in the United States are racist and terrible. Written during Trump's time in office, I have heard many of these complaints before so I found it a bit dull. Since it was a disparate set of essays, there is not a united theme that carries them through other than people are racist.

I guess there's a lot in here about how Jewish people might see Trump's actions and how he relates to Israel, which was sorta new to me but seems not as relevant given the recent terror attacks and genocidal response. This was a fresh perspective though, and gets the stars I award.

I also got into an argument with the author on Blue Sky where he misconstrued a comment I made, then dove deep on an irrelevant link in a paper and tried to gaslight me about what the paper said. Then he said I was wrong and he was right and that's that. So I don't know if I believe the research in these essays too much given that interaction.