SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police Paperback – October 13, 2015

A clear, concise and useful summary of today's SJW (Social Justice Warriors) movement, including their influence on the culture, infiltration of major institutions and, more importantly, the threat they present to regular unsuspecting people in everyday life. Whether you are an up-and-coming author or a corporate cubicle dweller, a scientist with a list of impressive achievements under your belt or a college student--chances are, sooner or later you will encounter these members of the new authoritarian movement who want nothing less than total control over your speech, your behavior, your very thoughts. If this book were nothing else but a guide for how to survive one of the SJW attacks, it would deserve undying gratitude of every free thinking person in the country. It is, however, more than that.

After reciting the "3 laws of SJWs," the book, somewhat oddly, spends time demonstrating them in action through a detailed discussion of the dispute between Day and his perpetual foe John Scalzi (an SJW) over the popularity of Scalzi's website. It is a puzzling choice at first glance; however, it plants the pertinent question in the reader's mind. If Mr. Scalzi is willing to lie and obfuscate about something as trivial and easily verified as website page views, what are the chances he would be truthful on things more substantial? Thus, in proper storytelling fashion, the hook is set, and the reader wants to know more.

Most of the rest of the book is, once again, full of effective storytelling techniques applied to non-fiction. The chapters alternate between disturbing demonstrations of SJW methods and tactics used against people who should have been fairly indestructible (thus bringing the reader close to despair) and showing proven, reliable ways that could be used to actually defeat such attacks (giving the reader hope and the reason to read on). I have not read Vox Day's fiction except for a few short stories, but the very structure of this book makes me curious to check out his longer fiction work. Aside from his… interesting…personality, the man knows how to write.

Substance-wise, the book is packed with information, from full history of GamerGate, to the Hugo Awards situation, to very understandable and valuable explanation of 4th Generation Warfare and how it applies to non-military struggles, to crash course in dialectic vs rhetorical debate techniques. If you have never cracked open a sci-fi book or pressed an ON button of a game system controller, you will still understand the basics of every issue discussed in the book.

There are a few special treats for the readers as well, not the least of which is a Foreword by the always fabulous Milo Yiannopoulos a.ka. Nero, a fearless European journalist whom you should just discover for yourself. Also, if you're reading on Kindle, do yourself a favor and keep moving to the next page even after the software tells you the book is "complete" because there are some Appendices you will likely enjoy (or at least find educational).

Is it a flawless book? Probably not. There are a couple of typos that the detractors will doubtless harp on, and one or two spots where the pacing sags a bit (most notably in the first two chapters). However, I have no problem giving it 5 stars and my ringing endorsement. Nowadays, loosely defined "pro-freedom" movement is overrun by pessimism and dire warnings, and it it inspiring indeed to see, for once, a book that offers a path towards the light, however difficult and uncertain it might be.

Highly recommended.

Loved the book - until roughly a year ago, I'd never heard of Vox Day, and only vaguely knew what GamerGate was - this book explains quite a bit about how SJW's operate (Read it, then read the one-star reviews, it's obvious that quite a few of them haven't read the book at all.) If I had Vox Day's reputation, I'd enter every public space playing Rob Zombie's version of "I'm Your Boogieman!" at top volume. This is a MUST READ if you work in a large corporation, by the way, because identifying the people who will lie, cheat, and steal to destroy you for simply existing and not agreeing with everything they say is an important skill to learn.

I'm going to read this again, and recommend it far and wide. It gives me great joy knowing that this is money well spent.

I review this as an ardent anti-Voxxer, who has argued with him many times. The man is a troll, a self-aggrandizing narcissist, and woefully ignorant of science.

However, in the field of philosophy and debate, there are few better in this market. He understands clearly the tactical use of dialectic and rhetoric, and that arguing facts against someone who refuses to accept them is pointless.

The key to arguing with such people is to recognize, evade, and turn their own tactics upon themselves, so they are forced into their own corners.

And, may I suggest, it's very useful for dealing with annoying exes who attempt to obfuscate at every opportunity.

It is well worth the money to learn how to debate with the unreasonable.

Unlike some reviewers, who apparently haven't read the book, I got ripped off! There was only one chapter 5 in my copy.

In all seriousness is, this is a simple and clear guidebook to the strange phenomenon of the Internet mob attack. Day could have used many other examples, like the scientist who was crucified for wearing the wrong shirt by various journalists and other marginal characters who have never accomplished anything but bitching about their betters; and that hapless scientist could have benefited greatly from this book whilst he was under attack.

With the examples that he uses make it clear that he is dealing with a general phenomenon, and so it's easy for the reader to apply Day's templates to other cases of SJW meltdown, whether the subject is gun control or the climate hockey stick.

With this book, Day has created an instructional classic, a counterweight to Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals. Its biggest advantage over Alinsky's work (which can be used as easily by people opposed to Alinsky's politics as those in support) is the block of instruction on the uses of rhetoric vs. dialectic (Aristotle's, not Hegel's). Rules for Radicals never breaks through the rhetoric barrier.