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No Holiday: 80 Places You Don't Want To Visit (Disinformation Travel Guides)

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This book is basically a jingoistic liberal's guide to how westerners/whites have plundered the earth. Fair enough, but the author reaches such amazing heights with his rhetoric that it just begins to sound silly at a certain point (it's not his platform, it's the inane sermonizing that every piece seems to devolve into that is the problem.)

Highlights include an evangelical section on how the Somali people are doing quite well for themselves without any form of government but little is mentioned of the atrocities we read about perpetrated against women and the extreme poor there. Cut off a guy's arm for stealing a chicken and then blame it on the white man! Iron-fisted warlords? Who are they?

Another highlight is the section condemning the Bronx Zoo for having debased an African pygmy OVER 100 YEARS AGO. Do we really need to hate the Bronx Zoo of today because it was run by racists over a hundred years ago? Clearly no progress has been made since then whatsoever so let's trot out the pygmy and pretend that the civil rights movement never actually happened. La la la la la.

You may actually enjoy this book if you hate whites/westerners/Israelis as much as the author clearly does and need more porn to sate your little fixation. Really, though, this book is little more than a truly naked example of the banal finger-pointing and cheesy racial demonizing that radical liberalism has been driven to on the one-way road to nowhere called political correctness.

...stay in your air conditioned drip dry bunker watching FOX news, Mr. Jones. For the rest of us, there's still plenty dirt to be learned and fessed up to.