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Andrew Yang Podcast

Christian Picciolini joined a neo-Nazi gang at 14. This is how he got out.

Andrew Yang Podcast

Andrew Yang & Audacy

Society & Culture

4.83.2K 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.

Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/U4mw13ZOAQw

Christian Picciolini - https://twitter.com/cpicciolini | https://christianpicciolini.com | https://freeradicals.org

Andrew Yang - https://instagram.com/andrewyang | https://twitter.com/AndrewYang

Zach Graumann - https://instagram.com/zachgraumann | https://twitter.com/Zach_Graumann

Transcript

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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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