eMili<p>:boosts_ok:<br>Hey Fediverse, <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bookstodongermany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodongermany</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/blackmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/transtodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transtodon</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/leftodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftodon</span></a> <br>I talked my <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/neoliberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neoliberal</span></a> flatmate into reading some books about <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/feminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>feminism</span></a> / <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/queerfeminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>queerfeminism</span></a> / <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/blackfeminism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackfeminism</span></a> or similarly <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/leftwing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>leftwing</span></a> books which would challenge his worldview.</p><p> Would you mind recommending some books for this purpose? <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/bookrecommendation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bookrecommendation</span></a> </p><p>------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>There is a LOT to challenge. Some of his opinions:</p><p>* There is no structural <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>racism</span></a> , only bad people and Nazis are racist (He is obviously not racist) i.e. introduction to <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/CriticalWhiteness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalWhiteness</span></a> </p><p>* You can get rich without <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/exploiting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>exploiting</span></a> people</p><p>* Colonialism is bad, but it is in the past. We should put it behind us (and <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Capitalism</span></a> has nothing to do with <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Colonialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colonialism</span></a> )</p><p>* Everything is getting better with time/Society is always moving forward (whitewashed <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> )</p><p>* There are only two biological sexes/binary biological sex exists ( <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/trans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>trans</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/genderstudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genderstudies</span></a> )</p><p>* The police is good for society and reduces crime (and racial profiling is okay apparently) <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Abolition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolition</span></a> <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Abolitionism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolitionism</span></a></p><p>* What is <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/intersectionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>intersectionalism</span></a> ? Never heard of it.</p><p>* <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> failed because it is doomed to fail, not because the USA intervened with military whenever there was an attempt at it.</p><p>* <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Liberalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Liberalism</span></a> is no ideology, it is the center, between left and right, and therefore the best option because it can't be extreme.</p><p><a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Germany" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Germany</span></a> didn't profit from Colonialism. Anyway after the 2nd World war we had nothing and we rebuilt germany on our own.</p><p>------------------------------------------------------------</p><p>Pls boost if you ever wanted to give a <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/liberal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>liberal</span></a> a reading list to challenge their views...<br>(Also books with <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/german" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>german</span></a> perspectives would be awesome, because we're based in Germany and its too easy to put all the problems "somewhere else")</p><p>Some Books I thought about recommending him:</p><p>* Whipping Girl (Julia Serano)</p><p>* Was weiße Menschen nicht über <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Rassismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Rassismus</span></a> hören wollen aber wissen sollten (Alice Hasters) <br>(Translates to: What white persons don't want to hear about racism, but should know)</p><p>* The Dawn of Everything (David Wengrow, David Graeber)</p><p>* At The Café conversations on <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Anarchism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Anarchism</span></a> (Errico Malatesta)</p><p>* <a href="https://eldritch.cafe/tags/Abolitionismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Abolitionismus</span></a> - Ein Reader (Suhrkamp)</p><p>* Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty)</p>