Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
Book • 2020 • Documentary
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One of the main topics of chapter 1 is the strategy of white settlers to kill buffalo en masse in order to devastate Native people who relied upon them. This killing caused the buffalo to almost go extinct.
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The author describes seeing a photograph of mountains of buffalo skulls
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The author describes how early football was very violent, and references a 1905 Ivy League game, in which a player's eyes were gouged out.
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Discussion of how one of the effects of white supremacy is white male suicide, including mentions of rising suicide rates among white men. The author describes how she received hate mail from multiple white men who threatened to kill themselves, saying that that's what they believed the author wanted and that their deaths would be her fault. The author's son at one point had suicidal ideation, and the author describes seeking therapy with him.
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This book details several events in which children are killed due to racist violence: scalping Natives, police brutality, etc.
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Detailed descriptions of white people scalping Natives. General discussions of warfare.
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A politician receives death threats involving related to hanging. The author discusses the Chicago race riots, which involved lynching by hanging.
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The author references homophobic and transphobic slurs used by Reddit users.
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No, but there is reference to an activist who went on a hunger strike for 8 days. The details of that activist's experiences with hunger are not described.
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The author describes the inciting incident of the Chicago race riots, which was that white people threw rocks at a Black child who had accidentally floated over to the "white side" of a beach until he drowned.
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There are references to the police murder of Eric Garner, as well as lynching via hanging.
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Gun violence is described throughout, including a reference to a mass shooting.
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The author describes how early football was very violent, and references a 1905 Ivy League game, in which many players broke bones.
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Throughout, mostly quotes from racists.
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The author references antisemitic, racist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic, ableist, islamophobic, and xenophobic hate speech throughout the book.
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The chapter on higher education details institutional efforts to keep Jewish students from entering elite universities in order to make space for gentile students. The chapter on sports references the protests at the University of Missouri in 2015, which began as a result of widespread antisemitism and racism on campus, including the defacing of a wall with a swastika. It also references the Unite the Right rally, and the antisemitic and racist slurs that were used.
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The author references the following events: former president of University of Missouri allegedly hitting a protester with his car (the person was unharmed), and James Alex Fields, Jr.' s murder of Heather Heyer and maiming of 19 others when he drove into a crowd of counter protesters during the Unite the Right rally in 2017.
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It's not so much that a Black person dies "first" in this book, since it's nonfiction and about history and social issues. However, the murders of Black people, Indigenous people, and other groups of color are described in some detail.
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