A Bluean and the Other Six Cofonas of Life After Hate

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i was a complete narcissus. I was into my ego, the glorification of everything i didndand i didn't think about the harm i committed to anyone else. And it's a common theme that happens with people that join any kind of violent extremist group. In two thousand 11 youno, google ideas put on this summit called the summit against violent extremism. They invited 50 former extremists and they worked together to foster piece. You had bloods, crips, skin heads, neonaes, you name it,. Every race, faith, geography, gender, ideology. It transcended all that stuff. So life after hate. We despise the ideology that we once believed but

“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.