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Summary: good points
Review: Because of David Horowitz's transformation from a hard-core Black Panther liberal to Reaganite conservative, his condemnations of the left are especially good because his former involvment with the left wing. Through his book be attacks liberals and policies through several different areas like education and especially race. He brings how far America has come in race relations and how often people are too sensative to matters of race. In terms of education, he deals with the decline of the American college that have moved away from basic skills and debate. Too often opposing view points are not brought up in American uneversities especially conservative ones. He also bring out some great critisms of the Clinton administration in areas like defense and race.
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Summary: Exposing Leftist McCarthyism
Review: If nothing else, "Hating Whitey" serves a very useful function to awaken those who are still under the illusion that the American Left represents freedom and equality. Indeed, the books most powerful weapon is its exposure of Liberal hypocrisy: The Left have treated "diversity" as the core of their conviction, yet are all too willing to censor ideas and beliefs that dissent from their view. The Left behave as the very Fascists they claim to oppose. But this plugs straight into another issue former radical Horowitz brings up: the deep influence of tyrannical Communism within the Liberal infrastructure. Communism is a system of murder and slavery, yet its sympathizers in the Leftwing American university are legion. Horowitz has called for an end to Affirmative Action, rightly insisting that it is the ultimate representation of the anti-White racism that has deeply infected the Left. David Horowitz explains that there is no "institutional racism," no all-powerful White racist machine that controls America. This is a myth the Left uses to keep themselves in power. And of course the Left and its soldiers in the media are not afraid to plaster act's of racism against non-Whites all over the news, but when it comes to the racism of Black's and Hispanic's against Whites, the Left is silent, or more likely, silently approving. Though "Hating Whitey" isn't perfect, one has to smile when watching a former influential Communist insist his "former comrades" are the enemies of the First Amendment.
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Summary: Truth from a former insider
Review: This was a very fascinating book which was very believable coming from a former liberal insider. It exposes some of the rotten and evil doings of groups that helped push an agenda 30-40 years ago, that we are still seeing the spoiled foilage of. Horowitz does a great job of telling stories to get his point across. His accounts are specific and honest. I suggest this to be a neccessary book to "balance" your bookself (preferrably, but doubtful) in the schools.
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Summary: Pulling back the veil of respectability
Review: Culled from the events of his involvement with the 60's radical movement in America, David Horowitz explains what happened to all those 'red diaper babies' when they were all grown up. David ,himself a former communist working from the left side of the political spectrum,names names in this book and goes to great lengths to explain why they do what they do and why they will never stop doing it. One of the names he mentions is Barbra Lee, the lone member of congress who voted AGAINST military action against Afghanistan (see pg.268-269). The story of his aquaintence with her and her slavish devotion to Marxism goes a long way to explaining her vote. He also chronicles his dealings with the Black Panther Party and lays bare any legitimate claim of their being a 'civil rights' group. They were in fact nothing more than a gang of street thugs. Instead of the reader being given an argument for their being a double standard when it comes to racist acts commited by blacks, David explains why the double standard exists and from where its support and its supporters come from.He also explains what the Left is really trying to accomplish by keeping these arguments intact and how the Left uses the universities of America to imbue its students with this poison. It took me about 3 days to read it from start to finish. My understanding of American politics is forever changed. History textbooks are in need of a revision.
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Summary: Excellent!
Review: This book shines light on much that the Left doesn't want the general populace to know about (look at some of the leftist's reviews right in this forum and notice the tone...). The one big problem with this book is that I am now depressed: at the mess our universities are in thanks to the mediocre revolutionary has-beens that now teem throughout academia like so many cockroaches, at the disastrous affects Political Correctness has had on both racial and gender relations, and mostly at the unmitigated gall these people have to hold themselves above everyone else.
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Summary: Telling it like it is, not the way ABC,CNN,NBC,&CBS spin it
Review: If you want to read a book that deals with the uncomfortable and politically incorrect FACTS of modern society, this is an awesome book. Horowitz gives straight talk on the issues of race and Progressives in America, revealing some of the unreported horrors perpetrated by Blacks.
It is a must-read for anyone who knows in their guts and/or personal experience that it isn't quite the way it is reported on CNN,ABC,CBS,etc, where the typical hate crime is White-on-(fill-in-the-blank). Yes, Blacks commit hate crimes,too, and in fact, are much more statistically likely to do so!
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Summary: Racially charged venom disguised as political commentary
Review: A poorly written screed which mostly highlights the author's own racial animosities. Horowitz is obviously torn by guilt over his past involvement with the worst sort of left-wing ethnic radicalism, but this book makes it clear he has channeled those emotions into irrational, racially-charged fury. Oddly enough, for someone who spends so much ink attacking black militants, Horowitz resembles nothing so much as a white Republican's version of a Malcolm X-[....]
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Summary: Good Horowitz
Review: This book is excelent in its depiction of reverse racism in America. It starts with his history with the Black Panthers organization and how many of its leaders were violent criminals to which he was closey aligned. Horowitz fills the rest of his book with examples of liberal bias on college campus' and how it seems that the leaders in the black community seem to be the ones with true problems with the other races. He provides concrete examples of this and as his is his style even includes scathing editorials on some of the literature about race. With an open mind this book can come across as both right on and way off, but is still an excelent read. High recomendation!
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Summary: Not for those with closed minds
Review: When I read this book and some of the knee jerk responses by some of the other reviewers of it a quote from the old Dr. Who TV show (Which I adore) comes to mind: "The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. They don't change their views to fit the facts, they change the facts to fit their views, and thats a real problem if you are one of the facts that need changing!" Horowitz is one of the facts that some need to change. Many of his charges are a matter of public record and can't be crediblly refuted such as the actual speeches of radicals of the 60's as to what they actually thought of MLK. Thus name calling is substituted for an actual refuting of facts by some. The book is a book of opinion. I think that at times Mr. Horowitz makes the same mistake of the left (for example his article about Chile) by deemphising the crime for the result. A murder who murders 1 is as disgusting as one who murders 100. His arguements are to some extent tinged with the need for redemption. He sees his own mistakes and regrets them, I think however on occasion he forgets that it took a murder for his mind to go on the final road of change. Many on the left haven't (God forbid) had that experience sort of like the old joke that a conservative is a liberal who has been mugged. I think he needs to give some slack to those who may not see what he sees, but he does skewer falsehood and self serving statements by many. The best part about this book, (Much like Carville's WHERE RIGHT THERE WRONG) is it makes an arguement and makes one think, but only if there is an open mind to do so. The short article nature of the book makes it easy to read and the stories covered are well done and bring back personal memories for me. All in all both leftists and rightest should read it, one to refute and one to affirm, however you can't have an arguement without two sides. As a general rule, he who calls names has no viable arguement.
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Summary: disappointing
Review: I thought this was going to be a thoughtful book with lots of Horowitz incite into a really data-rich subject that he'd treat from an irresistably scathing and truth-searching perspective. It's really very disorganized, though, and vears off-topic. Maybe it was rushed to print or something, but the title does not fit the writing. Again, Horowitz finds himself on the defensive for the first half, giving us his background in the radical left and black power movement. This is old news though, and honestly it doesn't add at all to his already shaky credibility. In fact, he seems unconsciously to provide ammunition for his critics. If you're going to put out a book with large circulation and title it "Hating Whitey", it had best be carefully thought out, or at least carefully edited. I admire him because I know he has a vast knowledge of history, and especially of Marxist theory ("The Politics of Bad Faith"). But, unless you want to buy this book to show it to your friends for shock-value, it's not really worth it.
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