Status Updates From Troll Nation: How The Right...

Oh, my god! This book is a torture device. I’ve never read so many unsubstantiated claims in my life. And that includes the two years I taught Eng Comp 101 to students at an open enrollment college!

During the Bush years, the anti-feminist right’s strategy was to portray feminism as some kind of well-intended mistake that had done more harm than good, and to argue that women had to be rescued from having rights for their own sake. Mostly, the fight focused on women’s sexual autonomy.

Almost no other concept has been as great a gift to the American right as the myth of “political correctness,” this widespread contention in right wing circles that a censorious left has somehow disallowed conservatives nationwide to enjoy their First Amendment–guaranteed right to be an asshole.