318: Christian Picciolini | Breaking Hate Part Two
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Jordan Harbinger
4.8 • 12.3K Ratings
🗓️ 27 February 2020
⏱️ 63 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 two of a two-part episode. Make sure to catch part one here!
What We Discuss with Christian Picciolini:- Why extremist ideology is on the rise all over the world -- and what we can do to stem its spread.
- What to do when we see other people in our sphere potentially falling victim to extremist recruiting tactics.
- How personal journeys of identity, community, and purpose are hijacked by extremist recruiters to fill their ranks.
- How the Internet has made it easier than ever for recruiters to draw young people away from families and communities that have zero ties to extremism.
- What extremist groups are doing to rebrand and sanitize their image in ways that appeal to the disenfranchised among the mainstream.
- And much more...
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| 0:36.0 | So if you're smart and you like to learn and improve, then you'll be right at home here with us. |
| 0:40.0 | In today's conversation, part two with Christian Peachy O'Leaney. This guy's amazing. He's an |
| 0:45.1 | Emmy award-winning producer, a prolific public speaker, and a reformed white nationalist |
| 0:50.5 | skinhead gang leader. If you need to jog your memory here, if you haven't listened to part one yet, |
| 0:55.5 | go back and check out the previous episode where we deep dive into Christian's background as a |
| 0:59.9 | skinhead, his motivations and mindset during his time in the gang, what finally prompted him to |
| 1:04.6 | leave the life and take on new purpose as someone who actively rescues others from falling victim to |
| 1:10.0 | the same hate ideology and recruitment tactics. In today's episode, we take the story a few steps |
| 1:15.4 | further and explain why extremist ideology is actually on the rise all over the world, not just |
| 1:21.0 | in the United States, and what we can do to help stem the tide, as well as what to do when we see |
| 1:25.7 | other people in our sphere potentially falling victim to extremist recruiting tactics or other |
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