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At 14, Christian Picciolini was recruited to a neo-Nazi group. Here's how he broke free.
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4/02/2021
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At 14, Christian Picciolini was recruited to a neo-Nazi group. Here's how he broke free.
In 1987, at the age of 14, Christian Picciolini was recruited into the neo-Nazi movement in America where he would remain for the next eight years.
The son of Italian immigrants - who were the victims of prejudice themselves when they came to the United States in the 1960s - it wasn't racism that initially drew him in.
As Picciolini told
's news podcast
The Quicky, "The ideology isn't the first draw, although it remains the glue once you're there. Instead, it's a search for identity, community and purpose and what I call a combination of life's potholes that we encounter. Things like trauma, abuse, loss, grief, poverty. Even privilege can be a pothole if it keeps us too separate from humanity."

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