Black Pill: How I Witnessed the Darkest Corners of the Internet Come to Life, Poison Society, and Capture American Politics

I can not put the book down. It is so captivating, informative and thrilling. Elle Reeve provides an insight into our reality that feels like surreal. Once I started reading I could not stop.

I have seen the author in several interviews on tv and was curious on how her book would be. I just bought it today and cannot stop reading it. I also bought her audiobook to enhance my reading. The book is fascinating. I love it!

This book by Elle Reeve is an eyeopener. I don't know if I am merely innocent or stupid, but there was stuff in the book I never knew about. I am unsettled and a little afraid.

I literally could not put this book down and recommend that anyone interested in persevering freedom and democracy read this book.

This book is a must read. The authors note alone will captivate you. Astounding experience driven and thought provoking. This is raw and real and well articulated. Great read. Highly recommend.

It shouldn’t escape your notice that the modern white “supremacy” movement began with a bunch of friendless virgins posting anonymously on an internet message board. But I suppose that’s what you’d expect; individuals of little personal merit living vicariously through the perceived superiority of a largely invented in-group, of which they only very superficially belong.White supremacy is a nasty, anti-intellectual ideology. It holds up to neither moral nor logical scrutiny. The fact that, for example, something like IQ varies more within a race than between races—along with the corollary that it is never wise to judge an individual by group averages—is enough to dispel the myth. Not to mention that cultural diversity drives innovation, and that all humans, despite cosmetic differences, are, basically, genetically indistinguishable.But this begs the question: Why are there any white supremacists at all, if the arguments in its favor are so poor or distasteful? The answer, as this book spells out quite clearly, is twofold: mental illness and hate.Journalist Elle Reeve, who covered the August 2017 Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, has first-hand experience interviewing self-described white supremacists. In this book you’ll hear directly from the alt-right’s most prominent leaders, including Richard Spencer, Matthew Heimbach, Matt Parott, Christopher Cantwell, and more.What’s interesting is that these characters—allowed to speak for themselves—do more harm to their own reputations than any adversary could ever hope to accomplish. These are hateful, ignorant, and in many cases, mentally ill individuals. Narcissism, particularly, seems to be a common denominator.And this makes sense. Narcissists are destructive. We’ve all known, either personally or through others, the trauma involved in forming a relationship with a narcissist. But what happens when narcissists decide to become politically active? Answer: the alt-right.Now, instead of destroying a single life, the political narcissist can black pill hundreds and thousands of individuals into thinking the world is hopeless and that the best course of action is to tear everything down. This is a narcissist’s dream-come-true: total chaos spread at the highest levels of society.And that should make anyone think twice before connecting with this crowd. Read this book, get nauseated, and resist being identified with any movement or politician that is even tangentially associated with these destructive bigots.

Many readers will know parts of this story: neo-Nazis at Charlottesville and qAnon Patagonia fleece wearing normies who storm the capitol Jan 6th (the author had breaking reporting for VICE and CNN), incels, gamergate, 4 chan and 8 chan and then there are the lesser know players: the rich far right guys who fund the younger Nazis, the former incel wizard who created 8chan which helped spread qanon (now a font creator who is a force for good) just to name a couple. But much like Jon Ronson’s great podcast Things Fell Apart, this is an impossible to put down journey down the historical rabbit hole where you start out one place and suddenly you are on a tour through some very rich terrain as she asks questions like: why are there so many lonely guys who turn far right and why are they obsessed with IQ? Why do young women go trad and then what happens when they try to leave? What is White Sharia Law? What does autism have to do with anything? How does the far right try to shame smart lefties with cringe? It’s the best kind of history told fromthe fringes as those fringes become the mainstream. Impossible to put down

The anger, hatred and fear of the alt-right fascist movement should scare anyone that has children. The start of the white supremacist movement by what society would deem 'losers' is an eye-opener. The internet and so called 'social media' platforms have given voice to the bigots and uneducated which many wealthy oligarchs are playing as their pawns.I highly recommend this book.