The Quiet Damage of QAnon feat. Jesselyn Cook (E288)
Added 2024-07-31 22:05:26 +0000 UTCThe harm of QAnon goes beyond the extremist violence it has inspired. It’s also socially corrosive in ways that are normally invisible. Relationships between siblings, spouses, friends, and parents and children are frequently strained when someone falls too deep down the rabbit hole.
The nature of and consequences of this harm is powerfully illustrated in the new book The Quiet Damage: QAnon And The Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook.
We spoke to Jesselyn about what inspired her to report on this angle of the QAnon phenomenon, the heartbreaking personal stories in the book, and how deeply committed conspiracists have found a better path.
It’s a somber one, folks.
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The Quiet Damage: QAnon And The Destruction of the American Family by Jesselyn Cook
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/706443/the-quiet-damage-by-jesselyn-cook/
‘I Miss My Mom’: Children Of QAnon Believers Are Desperately Trying To Deradicalize Their Own Parents
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/children-of-qanon-believers_n_601078e9c5b6c5586aa49077
Editing by Corey Klotz. Theme by Nick Sena. Additional music by Pontus Berghe. Theme Vocals by THEY/LIVE (instagram.com/theyylivve / sptfy.com/QrDm). Cover Art by Pedro Correa: (pedrocorrea.com)
QAA was known as the QAnon Anonymous podcast.
Comments
I should have been interviewed for her book. I just ended a relationship because I couldn’t handle any more of his heavy-handed attempts to convert me to a belief system I found outrageous. And that was, seriously, the only problem with our relationship. In every other respect he’s a really great guy. And you don’t have to be American or live in the US to be affected by this shit. My ex-partner is Swiss and French!
Bettina Grassmann
2025-01-03 20:46:42 +0000 UTCJake was so eloquent in this one. ❤️
Jimmie Hammel
2024-08-12 23:51:27 +0000 UTCI tried to listen to the first couple chapters of this and the email the mom sent the attorney guy telling him to shed her DNA because he voted for China Joe is so hard to listen to... YIKES
Ryan Henson
2024-08-07 17:46:36 +0000 UTCMan, okay. I need to get the book. I have serious ADHD and audio books are so hard for me, like I have to rewind these podcasts 15 times an episode lol
Ryan Henson
2024-08-07 17:44:53 +0000 UTCI got the book on Audible immediately after this podcast. First I want to say Jesselyn does a great job with the narration. I'm about halfway through it and it's sad and harrowing what some of these families and people went through. An amazing book.
Ricky Rich
2024-08-07 17:10:32 +0000 UTC
