The more I learn about the current epidemic of white supremacist groups, the clearer it becomes: we’re losing these people as children. Despair among our youth breeds vulnerability to ideological capture by psychotic forces. If our love doesn’t claim them, hate will.

Dec 15, 2020 · 5:50 AM UTC

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Like always- amazing and loving insight.
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Epidemic of white supremacist groups?? Really? Where are they?? With a population of 330 million people you always have fringe groups and radicals but dont think a few nut cases represent the whole bunch. This goes for all races. This talk is gibberish and nonsense.
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white supremacy is a minority faction here in the states, open racism is not tolerated by the majority of Americans.
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How about making little white boys feel they're worth something and not teach them they are what causes all the ills of society. Do you know how hard it is to raise boys? Then they go to school and are told they need to check their privelege
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I admire your tenacity in revealing the humanity in people and situations where it can be quite hard to find
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It is this despair that is killing us, it eats into the social fabric rupturing social bonds and manifests itself in an array of self destructive and aggressive pathologies. It fosters what the anthropologist Roger Lancaster called; “poisoned solidarity.”
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They are being recruited. People who used to work for DHS said it is like out of the ISIS playbook.
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Love doesn't cure this. A decent job and healthcare would be a great start.
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It's not that alone; it's just as frequently being subject to a life-long distortion and bias; a result of early indoctrination from parents, their friends and their communities.
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Middle school years are incredibly vulnerable. By 8th grade, it's too late. Many of the white boys I taught in 8th grade think Donald Trump is hilarious and would include him any project they could. (I taught a class with lots of creative license.) It was so unnerving.
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