Christian Picciolini joined a neo-Nazi gang at 14. This is how he got out.
Andrew Yang Podcast
Andrew Yang & Audacy
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2020
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Zach and Andrew recap the final debate. At 14, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a neo-Nazi leader in Chicago. Two years later, Picciolini became a neo-Nazi leader himself. Picciolini talks about why he left and how he helped 600 others get out through the Free Radicals Project.
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Zach Graumann - https://instagram.com/zachgraumann | https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann
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| 0:00.0 | You have at this point, de-radicalized, |
| 0:02.4 | how many people would you say? |
| 0:04.0 | Anywhere over 600 people, I think, now. |
| 0:06.4 | If I am someone who's struggling |
| 0:09.9 | with trying to disengage from one of these |
| 0:13.6 | movements or organizations, |
| 0:15.8 | like what is your approach to that person? |
| 0:18.2 | It's typically never the ideology that they're after, right? |
| 0:21.0 | The ideology is not attractive. |
| 0:23.0 | It's illogical, it's irrational |
| 0:25.5 | to hate somebody based on the color of their skin. |
| 0:27.6 | I mean, it's based on conspiracy theories and garbage. |
| 0:31.1 | So it's not the ideology. |
| 0:33.2 | So we have to understand, as people are on this search |
| 0:36.9 | for identity, community, and purpose, |
| 0:39.2 | which we all are at some point in our lives, |
| 0:40.8 | sometimes multiple times in our lives, |
| 0:43.2 | we hit what I call potholes in our life's journey. |
| 0:45.9 | And potholes are things like physical trauma |
| 0:48.5 | and abuse could be mental illness, it could be job loss, |
| 0:53.3 | it could be grief, it could be poverty, |
| 0:55.1 | it can also be privilege, if privilege keeps us |
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