See No Evil
19 Hard Truths the Left Can't Handle
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Narrated by:
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John McLain
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By:
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Joel B. Pollak
About this listen
Liberals take great pride in their supposed openmindedness. Yet when it comes to hot-button issues like radical Islam, global warming, and abortion, "openminded" liberals go to great lengths to discredit and suppress the ideas of their opponents. Breitbart senior editor Joel Pollak exposes the 19 key ideas that today's liberals are desperate to suppress, revealing the blatant hypocrisy of leftwing leaders and pundits who preach tolerance but practice intolerance.
©2016 Joel B. Pollak (P)2016 Blackstone Audio, Inc.Explaining that he is a former liberal, Joel goes through a list of topics highlighting "the lie" told by the radical woke left, topic by topic, highlighting and expounding the lie. There are nineteen chapters (in the audio book) on Climate (chapter 5), Race (9), immigration (10), Guns (2), the Minimum Wage (3), Israel (4), the Two Sexes (6) etc.
Due to the wide scope of the book's political coverage, each chapter is about 30 minutes long. Joel spends this time well making some excellent points but there is not enough time or space to deal with strong counter arguments to the points he makes. I found chapter 5 on climate to be particularly strong and succinct, which given his background and Harvard education makes sense.
Broadly, he argues that the radical woke left is fundamentally dishonest across topics, and shamelessly so, and that its purpose is the pursuit of greater centralisation of power and authoritarian control. The book was published in July 2016 , so written pre covid and pre Trump as POTUS. In the final chapter, he is highly critical of Trump. In the same chapter, he is breathtakingly naïve in his assessment of Silicon Valley social media platforms, optimistically pointing out that despite Big Tech's oppressive suppression of conservative views, "conservatives like Milo Yiannopoulos have pushed back on Twitter and in other forums, creating a new fan base and new conversations. The tech world may be overwhelmingly left wing but the tools it creates can be used for conservative purposes just as well." Days after the book was published Milo's @Nero Twitter account was permanently banned and remains banned even post Musk's acquisition of Twitter years later. Milo remains largely cancelled from mainstream media and social media.
Chapter 13 on Islamist terrorism is also a highlight. It discusses the infamous lie told by the left since 2001 that Islamist terrorism "has nothing to do with Islam", providing the fascinating if horrific story of Obama's reaction to Islamic State burning to death a Syrian pilot locked in a cage. Obama excused this atrocity by comparing it to atrocities carried out by the Crusades a millennia ago: "Remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ". Obama added “In our home country slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ". Pollak points out "As if Christianity had not been crucial to undoing both".
The book does not explore the deep origins of the left's deceptive nature, which many attribute to Marxism and how it evolved in the Frankfurt School.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the book and the narration, although some chapters rise well above others.
A compendium of woke leftist deception
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Very US centric. Quite biased in favour of certain narratives.
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