Pastels and Pedophiles - by Mia Bloom & Sophia Moskalenko (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women died that day. They, like the millions of Americans who believe that a mysterious insider known as "Q" is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy, were members of "pastel QAnon," a subgroup of mostly middle-class educated women that answered the call to "save the children." With Pastels and Pedophiles, Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko explain why the rise of pastel QAnon should not surprise us: women have been manipulated to follow the baseless conspiracy. They track QAnon's unexpected leap from the darkest corners of the Internet to the filtered glow of yogi mama Instagram, fed by the COVID-19 pandemic that supercharged conspiracy theories and spurred a fresh wave of Q-inspired violence, and connect the dots for readers. Pastels and Pedophiles shows how a conspiracy theory with its roots in centuries-old anti-Semitic hate has adapted to encompass local grievances and has metastasized around the globe-appealing to a wide range of alienated people who feel that something is not quite right in the world around them. While QAnon claims to hate Hollywood, the book demonstrates how much of Q mythology is ripped from movie and television plot lines. Finally, Pastels and Pedophiles lays out what can be done about QAnon's corrosive effect on society to bring Q followers out of the rabbit hole back into the light"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>A <i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> EDITORS' PICK / TOP 10 RECOMMENDED READ</b></p> <p><b>Two experts of extremist radicalization take us down the QAnon rabbit hole, exposing how the conspiracy theory ensnared countless Americans, and show us a way back to sanity.</b></p> <p>In January 2021, thousands descended on the U.S. Capitol to aid President Donald Trump in combating a shadowy cabal of Satan-worshipping pedophiles. Two women were among those who died that day. They, like millions of Americans, believed that a mysterious insider known as Q is exposing a vast deep-state conspiracy. The QAnon conspiracy theory has ensnared many women, who identify as members of pastel QAnon, answering the call to save the children. </p> <p>With <i>Pastels and Pedophiles</i>, Mia Bloom and Sophia Moskalenko explain why the rise of QAnon should not surprise us: believers have been manipulated to follow the baseless conspiracy. The authors track QAnon's unexpected leap from the darkest corners of the Internet to the filtered glow of yogi-mama Instagram, a frenzy fed by the COVID-19 pandemic that supercharged conspiracy theories and spurred a fresh wave of Q-inspired violence. </p> <p><i>Pastels and Pedophiles</i> connects the dots for readers, showing how a conspiracy theory with its roots in centuries-old anti-Semitic hate has adapted to encompass local grievances and has metastasized around the globe--appealing to a wide range of alienated people who feel that something is not quite right in the world around them. While QAnon claims to hate Hollywood, the book demonstrates how much of Q's mythology is ripped from movie and television plot lines. </p> <p>Finally, <i>Pastels and Pedophiles</i> lays out what can be done about QAnon's corrosive effect on society, to bring Q followers out of the rabbit hole and back into the light. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Experts on fringe movements (Bloom is a political scientist, Moskalenko a psychologist), the authors describe an entity that is at once a cult, a scam and a useful tool for the political Right.--Roger Atwood "<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>"<br><br><i>Pastels and Pedophiles</i> is a primer on one of the knottiest subjects of our time, and it will surely be helpful to uninitiated readers.--Seyward Darby "<i>New York Times</i>"<br><br>A revealing--and disturbing--analysis of a dangerous threat to American democracy.--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Mia Bloom</b> is the International Security Fellow at New America, professor at Georgia State University, and member of the Evidence-Based Cybersecurity Research Group. She has authored books on violent extremism including <i>Small Arms: Children and Terrorism</i> (2019), <i>Bombshell: Women and Terrorism</i> (2011), and <i>Dying to Kill: The Allure of Suicide Terror</i> (2005). <b>Sophia Moskalenko</b> is a psychologist studying mass identity, inter-group conflict, and conspiracy theories. She has written several books, including the award-winning <i>Friction: How Conflict Radicalizes Them and Us</i> (2011) and <i>The Marvel of Martyrdom: The Power of Self-Sacrifice in the Selfish World</i> (2019).
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