Converting a white nationalist
I recently listened to an episode of Sam Harris' Waking Up podcast in which he had a discussion with ex-white nationalist Christian Picciolini. They discuss Christian's drastic 180 from leading a neo-nazi skin head group to his extremely important anti-hate activism. The interview is a must listen so I will post a link here. https://samharris.org/podcasts/121-white-power/ Christian warns us that much of the left's counterattacks on white nationalists is backfiring. He argues that in the same way that the "War on Terror" lead to the development of ISIS and further cases of terrorism, the violence and marginalization of young, fairly moderate white males is making them more vulnerable to white nationalist ideologies. Screaming from the extremes isn't working. He advocates that we need to start in the middle (we all want better jobs, better health, kids to be happy) in order to humanize each other. Jon Haidt teaches us that through more interpersonal, cross-...