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It started just because the first page was full of the quotes about how it was urgent, timely, powerful, political etc - and so obviously I start reading it from the angle of "this is a political manifesto". Which is unfair! And then the author was a banker. And the first person narrator is too. It's the sort of thing that makes me read unfairly, so I put it down for a bit, picked it up again in a different frame of mind.
Then there's 2 paragraphs which instantly made me so, so frustrated.
So the first paragraph is a blanket dismissal of protestors. Then the second is Jeremy Corbyn. And... yeah, this stuff is personal to me. The implicit claim here is that Corbyn was specifically targeting successful Black people somehow, through his political programme. It's the same (garbage) line complaining about him supposedly not compromising. And yeah, ok, the 2015-2019 years I have immense emotional investment in. On other pages she criticises the hostile environment, but it's not personalised like this, obviously. It's just crap, I'm sorry.
Through the whole thing there's a weird identification with rich people - like, she deserves to be rich and powerful and able to impose her will on others because she Worked Hard, upper class aristocrats may be annoying but obviously you should get in a relationship with them (as if that's a normal thing an average person could do). Like there's a lot I don't think I have the right to complain about but the class stuff is just... wild idk. So much so I can't pay proper attention to the rest of the book. Sorry.… (mer)