Tony joins Trey of Subversion Webcast to dissect Sam Harris' recent conversation on White Power.
Christian Picciolini is a former white supremacist with a violent past. Over time, he saw the error of his ways, and now works to reform young me…
Tony joins Trey of Subversion Webcast to dissect Sam Harris' recent conversation on White Power.
Christian Picciolini is a former white supremacist with a violent past. Over time, he saw the error of his ways, and now works to reform young men in the white power movement.
Trey and Tony take issue with some of the views and conclusions of both Harris and Picciolini.
Topics discussed: Mainstream Media, Stefan Molyneux, Alt Right, the Russia narrative, and white privilege/white guilt.
Listen to Harris and Picciolini's Conversation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sx1vpEenu80
Conversation of Harris with Douglas Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAsDYc6vR5A
Molyneux Talks To Murray: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsFBjKuRy4M
Molyneux Clip That Many People Criticize: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZASruN-mIA
Another Criticism of Molyneux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TPwjUmS7Vw
Trey's Show Notes (timestamps from Waking Up with Sam Harris podcast episode with Christian Picciolini)
Conspiracy theory simply pivoted to a new boogyman: from Jews to whiteness
Genuinely curious if he can delineate a disaffected unemployed white person from the rust belt from a well polished white supremacist.
Good points he makes:
6:00 - Details that not only people from broken homes become radicalized. Important point when we talk about Jihadism as well
15:00 - Potholes analogy. Great metaphor, and I think this is useful. What broke the cycle of his association with the white supremacist movement was having someone reach out an olive branch.
53:00 - Silence and violence are both bad ways to confront extremists
1:06:00 - Dylan Roof, radicalized partially by fake news. This is a complicated point for me, there’s good and bad in this short little clip of audio.
1:40:00 - Chris both says that all we have to do is admit that we’re a white supremacist nation. Then when asked about what to tell black people he seems to ..
