The War on the West
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4.5 • 267 Ratings
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Publisher Description
An Instant New York Times Bestseller!
China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?
It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Some of this is a much-needed reckoning, but much of it fatally undermines the very things that created the greatest, most humane civilization in the world.
In The War on the West, Douglas Murray shows how many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. After all, if we must discard the ideas of Kant, Hume, and Mill for their opinions on race, shouldn’t we discard Marx, whose work is peppered with racial slurs and anti-Semitism? Embers of racism remain to be stamped out in America, but what about the raging racist inferno in the Middle East and Asia?
It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations and human rights abusers hoping to distract from their own ongoing villainy. Dictators who slaughter their own people are happy to jump on the “America is a racist country” bandwagon and mimic the language of antiracism and “pro-justice” movements as PR while making authoritarian conquests.
If the West is to survive, it must be defended. The War on the West is not only an incisive takedown of foolish anti-Western arguments but also a rigorous new apologetic for civilization itself.
Customer Reviews
This was an interesting read.
With all that is going on in our world with Critical Race Theory,Racism and the cancel culture. This book gives you a totally different enlightening perspective. The author does a good job pointing out the many wholes in the concepts and sheds some light on the motivation behind it. I highly suggest the read. However at times it could be a little slow and a bit too repetitive. It was still worth it.
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At first it starts a bit like The Madness of Crowds and I was afraid it would be sort of just additional points on that book but holyyyyy molllly. This was great in a totally different way. It’s nice to come away from this book with pride for the west.
Spot On
This should be required reading for anyone interested in the culture wars. Unfortunately it needed to be written. Listen carefully for the roots of this occidentalism: leftist academics not appreciating the dramatic strides made in racial equality. Author points out yes there is racism in America but it’s often confused for the norm as opposed to an anomaly. Where’s the microscope on the truly racist states of China or India for instance? I think it could’ve gone further to investigate why we got where we are as opposed to merely describing where we are. Perhaps that should the subject of another book.