Christian Picciolini
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Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism
In this powerful and deeply personal talk, Emmy Award–winning peace advocate and former extremist Christian Picciolini explores the roots of modern hate movements and the pathways out of them. Drawing from his remarkable journey of transformation and decades of work helping others disengage from violent ideologies, Christian reveals how fear, trauma, and a search for identity drive radicalization—and how empathy, connection, and understanding can dismantle it. Breaking Hate challenges audiences to confront extremism not with anger, but with compassion, and offers actionable insights for healing division in our communities and ourselves.
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“Breaking Hate: Confronting the New Culture of Extremism” (2020)
A stunning exploration of how to heal a nation reeling from extremist violence from viral TED speaker and onetime white-supremacist leader Christian Picciolini who now works as a peace activist disengaging hateful radicals.
“White American Youth: My Descent into America's Most Violent Hate Movement--and How I Got Out” (2017)
A stunning look inside the world of violent hate groups by a onetime white supremacist leader who, shaken by a personal tragedy, abandoned his destructive life to become an anti-hate activist. Raw, inspiring, and heartbreakingly candid, White American Youth explores why so many young people lose themselves in a culture of hatred and violence and how the criminal networks they forge terrorize and divide our nation.
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