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  • Gender, Race and Identity
  • By: Douglas Murray
  • Narrated by: Douglas Murray
  • Length: 11 hrs and 56 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (6,029 ratings)
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Summary

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year
Updated with a new afterword by the author

'Douglas Murray fights the good fight for freedom of speech ... A truthful look at today's most divisive issues' Jordan B. Peterson

'[Murray’s] latest book is beyond brilliant and should be read, must be read, by everyone' Richard Dawkins

Are we living through the great derangement of our times?

In The Madness of Crowds Douglas Murray investigates the dangers of ‘woke’ culture and the rise of identity politics. In lively, razor-sharp prose he examines the most controversial issues of our moment: sexuality, gender, technology and race, with interludes on the Marxist foundations of ‘wokeness’, the impact of tech and how, in an increasingly online culture, we must relearn the ability to forgive.

One of the few writers who dares to counter the prevailing view and question the dramatic changes in our society – from gender reassignment for children to the impact of transgender rights on women – Murray’s penetrating book, now published with a new afterword taking account of the book's reception and responding to the worldwide Black Lives Matter protests, clears a path of sanity through the fog of our modern predicament.
©2019 Douglas Murray (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

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Congratulations Douglas, a masterpiece.

This is required reading/listening for anyone interested in society, politics, or the media.

Douglas nails the hypocrisy of the SJW's in today's confused world, and asks very challenging and thought provoking questions of the listener. His section on the lack of forgiveness for example has been something I have been thinking on for days - he is absolutely right and has made me consider problems I had not thought about before. At turns through this, I have been angered by some of the historical abuses that Douglas documents, through to heartened that Douglas has raised these important topics in such a thorough, diligent and rational way, without excessive emotion nor rancour.

I also applaud Douglas's vocal performance. His nuanced delivery of irony is a remarkable picture of understatement, and all the more delicious for it. Furthermore, he has perfected the cadence of his speech: slow enough to allow the listener to properly consider and digest the sentence, without being so slow as to be boring.

I would urge anyone sitting on the fence about buying this to dive in and be prepared to be both angered and enlightened.

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A right wing polemic

Racism and sexism don't exist apparently, it's a wild fantasy of the "victims". It'd be laughable if it weren't so dangerous.

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A breath of fresh air

I hope Douglas’ compassionate honestly allows people to start having the conversations they are having in private, in public.

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Impressions

Voice mpressions by Douglas Murray of both Nicki Minaj and Renée Zellwegger are top drawer!

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An angel rushes in where fools fear to tread

Douglas Murray picks up dozens of half-formulated thoughts and ill-defined objections strewn around my brain, puts them into neat piles and labels them for me. Two examples: in the 1970s my grandmother told me she was a feminist and explained what this meant. I immediately agreed that I was a feminist too. Later I sensed that I was no longer a feminist and felt vague unease wrt my late grandma. But Douglas explains that I simply alighted the feminist train once it reached a place that gave me the opportunities, the freedom and respect that I needed to live a happy and fulfilled life. The feminist train then (to use DM’s analogy) picked up speed and steamed on to other destinations and obsessions that had nothing to do with the aspirations of my Grandma.
Forgiveness. I’ve always somewhat taken the view that ‘forgiveness is for wimps’. Not being a religious person I don’t think anyone has ever presented me the logical case for forgiveness. DM put this right. We are forced to live in action. We do not always understand all the consequences of our actions, we may also act rashly or emotionally, but we can never undo an action. This implies that unless we want to be paralysed into inaction we must have the possibility of forgiveness to release us from regretted actions. As in business dealings we need contract law to bind us, but we also need bankruptcy laws to release us and forgive debts if things do go badly wrong. Hmm, I may have been rather harsh to a few people.

Narration. Douglas has a terribly posh voice, but I love it. Every perfectly articulated syllable.

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Essential listening

Thanks Douglas, it was sobering to find out just how mad the world is becoming and why.

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Everyone should read

I have never said this about a book: should be required reading. The best book on this topic

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Fabulous listen!

Always love Douglas Murray’s writing - this book is as witty and fascinating as ever. Murray glides over the landmine topics of our time with the ease and grace of a swan. The clarity with which Murray thinks and speaks is exceptional and this book is an absolute *must-read* for all free thinking people.

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Fine if you don't like women. At all.

I could hear the misogyny in every word he spat out. The fake nipples, wtf?

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Excellent

An excellent book, a rare sensible analysis of an increasingly mad world. I highly recommend.

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