The Cure for Hate — with Tony McAleer

“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.