Culture Warlords Review: An Undercover Examination of White Supremacy

Talia Lavin was undercover to join white supremacy groups who abused her online. Your book, Culture Warlords, makes reading difficult

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November 11, 2020

By Donna Lu

White nationalists marching in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017

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Culture Warlords: My Journey into the Dark Web of White Domination

Talia Lavin

Octopus books

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TALIA LAVIN woke up one day and discovered a group of white supremacists who were using the encrypted messaging app Telegram to discuss whether she was “too ugly to be raped”. A few weeks earlier, unknown to her members, she had joined the group.

The writer and former New York magazine fact-checker did not feel prominent enough to warrant such obnoxious comments. “I was mostly just a loudmouth on Twitter. Why do I have properties in …