Rising Out of Hatred: The Awakening of a Former White Nationalist

by Eli Saslow

The way to fight perceived hatred is not with hatred. These threads make me sick. If you have a problem with white nationalist ideology (which I certainly do and I think it’s safe to say the vast majority of people here do) then go fight oppressive structures. Or at the very least, educate yourself about privilege and racial issues and classism and discrimination and get informed. Educate others. Those are helpful, positive directions to go in. What is not a positive direction to go in is to attack a person. If the aim is to draw attention and awareness to him, then that mission has been accomplished so many times the NCF community is saturated in knowledge. If the aim is to try to change or challenge his belief systems, the way to accomplish that is not through public contempt or ostracism. There has been enough discussion about this one person to last a lifetime, and all it’s doing now—and all it’s been doing for a long while now—is harm. Leave it be.