317: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part One
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Jordan Harbinger
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🗓️ 25 February 2020
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Christian Picciolini (@cpicciolini) is an Emmy Award-winning television producer, reformed extremist, founder of the Free Radicals Project, and author of Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism and White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement -- and How I Got Out. This is part one of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part two here!
What We Discuss with Christian Picciolini:- How the marketing of extremism has evolved to become more palatable to the masses.
- How identity, community, and purpose drive extremism -- not ideology.
- Why extremism and race identity are popular with youth now more than ever before.
- What we can do if we know someone involved with -- or thinking of becoming involved with -- an extremist group.
- How an ex neo-Nazi skinhead became a uniquely qualified peace advocate to help others avoid walking in his footsteps.
- And much more...
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the show, I'm Jordan Harbinger. |
| 0:05.6 | As always, I'm here with producer Jason DeFilippo. |
| 0:08.1 | On the Jordan Harbinger show, we decode the stories, secrets and skills of the world's |
| 0:11.5 | most brilliant and interesting people and turn their wisdom into practical advice that |
| 0:15.5 | you can use to impact your own life and those around you. |
| 0:18.8 | We want to help you see the matrix when it comes to how these people think and behave |
| 0:22.0 | and want to help you become a better thinker. |
| 0:24.4 | If you're new to the show, we've got episodes with spies and CEOs, athletes and authors, |
| 0:28.9 | thinkers and performers, as well as toolboxes for skills like negotiation, public speaking, |
| 0:34.2 | body language persuasion and more. |
| 0:35.9 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, then you'll be right at home here |
| 0:39.6 | with us. |
| 0:40.6 | Today on the show, part one with my friend Christian PTO Leone, an Emmy award-winning |
| 0:45.3 | producer, public speaker and reformed white nationalist skinhead gang leader. |
| 0:49.8 | What? |
| 0:50.8 | Yeah, the story reads like the true version of American history X or something. |
| 0:54.8 | On this episode, we'll uncover how identity, community and purpose drive extremism, not |
| 0:59.3 | simply ideology. |
| 1:00.6 | We'll also learn why racial identity politics and skinhead groups are even more popular |
| 1:05.7 | with youth than ever before in history, and we'll explore what you can do if you or |
| 1:10.5 | someone you know has joined is thinking of joining or is under the influence of one of |
| 1:15.4 | these extremist groups. |
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