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I'm not sure how many of you have ever heard of Christian Picciolini from Life After Hate and Exit USA. He's been in the news alot since Trump was elected.
I had the pleasure to meet him this past Saturday in Helena, Montana. I actually helped bring him to the state for a speaking tour. I basically introduced him to Love Lives Here in the Flathead and the Montana Human Rights Network... whom I was a former opponent of. I wasn't sure what to expect when people I opposed asked me if I knew anyone that could speak to communities here... I certainly didn't think it would become a tour.
It was a massive success, and was a good thing to do after the threatened neo-Nazi march through Whitefish and the Jewish community being attacked... which my defense of got me doxxed as well.
I'm actually openly a former white nationalist activist, and so as I leave this state to head back to Florida to finish school... I don't think I could have left a better gift.
I also filmed an interview for a Life After Hate documentary.. which was nerve-wracking... and I really don't seem to like filming B roll....
Anyway, if any of you ever get to hear him speak, I suggest going.
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I was waiting to see which of these threads would be deleted before I posted, but now I'll just post here and make this one the official thread and that other nothing but an imposter.
I deleted the other one because I figured it was the wrong place. Lol This is more of an off-topic subject.
I used to mod, so I'd hate to make more work for them.
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I tried to follow that original post and gave up after 3 google searches.
Now I feel bad!
I'm actually openly a former white nationalist activist
Emphasis on "former." Glad you're better now. :)
So, if it's not intrusive, how'd you get from there to here?
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I'm actually openly a former white nationalist activistEmphasis on "former." Glad you're better now. :)
So, if it's not intrusive, how'd you get from there to here?
Not intrusive.
I was... I suppose the best way to put it... not a true believer.. despite a decade in it.
I had my reasons for being in it. Mostly because I wanted to help not just everyone, but my folk as well. I'm an Odinist, which is a very ethnic religion. I'm pro-free speech, and was never fond of political correctness.
So I was the perfect storm of getting involved.
I was moderate in most ways, such as always being LGB friendly... though I was not trans friendly... one of my few regrets.
When it came to most bigotry though, I was mostly an enabler... though I occasionally got caught up in it myself.
I was also surrounded by leadership. I know most of the big-name racialists.
As for leaving. It was a lot easier for me than most. I asked myself why.
I couldn't answer that.
Eventually I also came to terms with my own sexuality. I also went back to college, and learned a lot of my previous ideas were bad science.
So.. I used my past as a learning experience, and decided to move on.
Several things that helped was this guy, David Lenio, that I was originally supposed to meet threatened to school school kids in Kalispell, MT... as well as the kids of Jonathan Hutson.. former comm. director for the Brady Campaign.. who I ended up meeting. If he had hurt people, I'd have felt responsible for opening his way.. basically.
Also the recent trollstorm in Whitefish, MT that ended up with a Jewish family receiving 700 troll messages and threats. I tried to get a post about the 12 yo son taken down by the web host, and got doxxed myself.. though since I am an adult male.. not nearly as bad.
I got in touch with former opponents. I reached out to Picciolini when he was being bombarded by trolls. And eventually connected those all together.
So... what took me out of WN?
A combination of me taking blinders off, and the behavior of WNs.