Are You Hungry, Anxious, Lonely or Tired?

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Hate serendipity is being exposed to the wrong thing at the wrong time. I think we have the opportunity to use ology to do a great deal of harm reduction. Theres ways a weaken trigger, disillusionment and if we could take someone that might be ten years in the movement and get them to quit at six, that's harm iduction. And i think it can be a critical part to the solution as well. To be that angry all the time, surrounded by angry people all the time,. is draining and lot of churn that goes on in the movement.

“You can binge watch an ideology in a weekend,” says Tony McAleer. He should know. A former white supremacist, McAleer was introduced to neo-Nazi ideology through the U.K. punk scene in the 1980s. But after his daughter was born, he embarked on a decades-long journey from hate to compassion. Today’s technology, he says, make violent ideologies infinitely more accessible and appealing to those who long for acceptance. Social media isolates us and can incubate hate in a highly diffuse structure, making it nearly impossible to stop race-based violence without fanning the flames or driving it further underground. McAleer discusses solutions to this dilemma and the positive actions we can take together.