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Welcome to Leith hits this point home, too. ...but I think it's important to look at white nationalism as a whole meaning-to-life package: community, an enemy, a mission. Looking at lot of these people, I wonder how many other options they had for that
There's also really no escape hatch once you take on an affiliation like that, especially in the internet era. Imagine trying to rebuild your life if there were footage of you proudly & casually using racial slurs. If you hadn't had options before... welp.
Yeah no kidding. I imagine it’s similar in some ways to the recovery of a serious addict: lots of amend-making, liberally owning up to past mistakes for the rest of your life, etc. Not an easy road.
I think the "no escape hatch" aspect of it is what solidifies the belief. I don't know if either of you have ever been a believer of a specific religion or anything but there's kind of very distinct switch/release that occurs where you kind of move from casual to "believer"
There the possible escape hatch of flipping the sign on everything, but you have to go all the way and hate on everyone associated with the white right: https://samharris.org/podcasts/121-white-power/ …
Director Deeyah Khan was recently on Sam Harris's podcast where she affirmed/elaborated on what you've both said, as well as drawing the connection between the same angsty, maladapted personalities and jihadism. Khan is amazing — extending unwavering empathy to the reprehensible
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