![]() It reminds us that Not All Dead White Men should not be the last book of its kind if it is, we have already lost the war against what Zuckerberg exposes to be the alt-right's quite cavernous and extraordinarily virulent ignorance. Zuckerberg teaches us a great deal about white supremacy. As a work of scholarship, albeit written in intelligible prose for a broad audience (sometimes bordering on college-freshman-essay simple), Not All Dead White Men is also a call to action for Classicists to take an ethical stand in their research and pedagogy. Zuckerberg politicizes the Classics, puts them center stage in the ongoing cultural battle for justice and equality. Zuckerberg is an expert at reading the contradictory worldbuilding Red Pill 'thinkers' engage in when they rally, for example, the writing of a Stoic philosopher like Marcus Aurelius.to perform their supposed superior rationality and emotionlessness (compared to emotional, less-rational women), and advocate white supremacy. It's also a powerful defense of the humanities. ![]() Zuckerberg's book is a clear and convincing deep-dive into the message boards, online forums, self-published books, and blogs where the alt-right congregates. ![]()
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