1392: Jeff Schoep | An American Nazi's Long Road to Redemption

Coming up next on the Jordan Harbinger Show. You know it's not something that the mainstream society likes. But you get this mindset amongst yourself. I got this mindset that I was now a part of this cause that was something greater than myself or something that I was going to be a part of, that I was going to change the world, that I was going to save my country, and all these different kind of things. As crazy as it sounds, people that are involved in this, a lot of them feel that it's patriotic. They're doing their duty. So I thought I was going to help save the white race from extermination and all these kind of things. So and then it becomes confirmation bias because Once you're in that environment, it's very cult like

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Today we're sitting down with Jeff Scoop. For roughly a quarter century, Jeff led the national socialist movement, an explicitly neo Nazi organization that he helped turn into a national recruiting and propaganda operation. He took it from a ragtag bunch of semi disorganized chapters and modernized the entire organization, implemented a ranking and promotion system, organized rallies, meetings, recruitment, a record label, and more, after twenty five years at the top. The cracks started to form. And he's since left the organization Working now with advocacy groups to atone for his past. His memoir is American Nazi From Hate to Humanity. This is not a conversation about handing out absolution. It's about how hatred becomes identity.

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