Transcending Hate w/Arno Michaelis (former white supremacist)
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Arno Michaelis is a former Neo-Nazi turned activist, writer, and tremendous ally to the Jewish people. He was a founding member of a racist skinhead crew, lead singer of a hate metal band, reverend in a violently antisemitic church — and then he walked away, worn down by exhaustion and undone by the kindness of the people he was taught to hate.
Today he's a Buddhist, an author, and a peer specialist at Parents for Peace who talks pissed-off young men out of the abyss for a living.In this episode, Arno explains why every extremist ideology, left or right, eventually converges on hating Jews. And why that's not a Jewish problem to solve.
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What We Discuss:
00:00 Intro & Episode Agenda
02:45 Storytelling and the work of Parents for Peace
07:30 The archetype of "Joe Pissed Off White Kid"
11:00 Arno's childhood, addiction, and the roller coaster of hate
18:00 The night his newborn daughter changed everything
22:00 Regret vs. remorse — the mechanism of real change
25:00 How white nationalism recruits today
31:00 Why every extremist ideology converges on Jew hatred
36:00 Whose problem antisemitism actually is
39:00 Arno's question to Margarita
41:00 Closing Remarks
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