“Book” Review: SJWs Always Lie - Part One
What Are “Book” Reviews?
A “book” is a “book” that is so shitty that it can’t be considered a book. More like “printed clickbait”.
“Book” reviewing is the review of this “printed clickbait”.
Hello, and welcome to my first “book” review. Today, I’ll be reviewing “SJWs Always Lie” by Vox Day, otherwise known as Theodore Beale.
And let me tell you, it is one catastrophic clusterfuck. I’ll tell you why.
The book starts off with a foreword, by Milo Y. of all people. You know how shit the book will be when he says that:
“Social justice warriors don’t understand that life, and people, are messy and complicated: that a gay person might, for entirely rational reasons and without a shred of self-loathing, object to the idea of gay marriage.”
What “rational reasons”? Good luck finding anything, because there’s none.
Afterwards, there is a “Sob Story” “Prologue”, in which he details how he ran for the SFWA (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers Association) and put down seemingly legitimate ideas. Here’s one of the judges’ (legitimate and correct) opinions:
“It seems to me that your obvious contempt for women writers, should you be elected, will redefine the nature of the organization in a way that models your ideology—an ideology which entirely devalues women writers, not to mention a great percentage of certain kinds of writing within the genre. So your public statements concerning publishing and writing and women indicate that you cannot represent a significant portion of the membership. Because you simply do not value those writers, you will be unable to do those things that would support our careers.”
A great criticism, given Vox’s history. But instead of taking it, Vox Day commented on the organisation:
“The myopic Neo-Luddism and anti-intellectual ideology in the organization appears to be both deep and wide.”
Since when did legitimate criticism make a SF organisation “neo-Luddites”? Harlan Ellison never denigrated women in his writings. And he was a multi-Hugo winner.
At last, we’re up to the 1st chapter.
“Some of them even go so far as to claim that “race is just a social construct”, which explains why an SJW like the NAACP’s Rachel Dolezal thought she could get away with blithely telling everyone she was black for years.”
Oh boy…
First things first: I do not support what she did - I wholeheartedly condemn it. And I’m as SJW as they come.
“Women who have removed their children from the SJW propaganda factories are teaching them and raising a new and hardier intellectual elite.”
“Intellectual elite”. Sound familiar?
Which brings me to the second chapter, titled “The Three Laws of SJW”. (More on this in a moment).
It begins with a quote from Goebbels:
“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.”
And you know how this chapter is titled “The Three Laws of SJW”?
It should be titled “The Three Laws of John Scalzi”. And it’s Vox’s undoing.
Why?
He defeats the entire point of the book - by only fixating on John Scalzi.
Unsurprisingly, this is probably because he was expelled by the SFWA, and Scalzi was its outgoing president.
Join me next time as I review the rest of the book, and see the clusterfuck of a novel unravel.