The Cure for Hate. Guest: Tony McAleer

December 19, 2019

“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.

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Tony McAleer is a former violent white supremacist and a co-founder of the organization Life After Hate, and the author of “The Cure for Hate: A White Supremacist’s Journey from Violent Extremism to Radical Compassion.” 


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