Hey @consciouscampus. You are openly promoting a neo-Nazi (not a former neo-Nazi) and booking them to speak at social justice and education conferences. Are you knowingly providing cover for a known racist? consciouscampus.com/talent/jeff-sc… Schoep is speaking at NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education) in Portland today.

Everything happening in America and the world right now and for the last decade (rise of neofascism, Qanon/conspiracists, Trumpism, "America First," white nationalism, polarization, etc) is leading me to believe we will face a period of darkness like we've never seen before. If you ever wondered how so many "good" Germans didn't see Hitler and the Third Reich coming and then ended up participating or quietly being complicit in the brutality of Nazism, just look around. We are living through something similar now.

I think we must be very careful here. Trump is already off expanding his hate cult outside of the presidency. This is not going away. This is just the beginning of something we've not seen before. If we don't impeach & convict now, he will come back stronger & w/ nastier support. This is not just "fringe" extremism anymore. They will skip over the "protest" part and move straight to strategic insurgency. They don't think like protesters, they think they're saving something. Cut the head off the snake. Right now. Squash this rebellion before it builds.

My quicktake on deradicalization: like any growth market, opportunists looking to capitalize will eventually enter the space and do it harm. This not only undermines those doing good, it creates a dangerous scenario where abusers can destroy the credibility of the entire process. Disengagement is sensitive & delicate. It doesn't always work. That alone makes disingenuous actors in the space more dangerous. That also means when "they" fail, I fail, because people think the process doesn't work. Trust me, it works and is important. Follow actions not words.

I need your help.

1) It's do or die for me right now. For first time in 20 years, I've had to ask myself if I can continue the work of extremist disengagement. The problem has grown too fast and my ability to scale intervention services to meet the need has reached its limits. 2) Most people don't know, but I have always self-funded my work. I was on the road 194 days in 2018 doing speaking gigs (in places where I can sneak in interventions), because proceeds go to fund my de-radicalization work at @FreeRadicalsOrg. Also was the case when I was at LAH.

Nazi Germany in 1943? Nope. Madison Square Garden in NYC in 1939. Wise up, folks. A Hitler Youth camp in Berlin? Try upstate New York. Were your grandparents there? Any living politicians? That would be interesting to know.

THREAD: 1/ Here is what is NOT being talked about re: white supremacy, and what no one is asking in these 3-minute interviews: Words matter. Especially from a president. I wrote words 30 years ago that inspired Dylann Roof to kill in 2015 Mr. President, like me, you are to blame. 2/ My lyrics that Roof posted about 4 months before his terrorist act were also about an "invasion." Step up and own it, your words are inciting the death of Americans.

Fair Warning: I am now seeing Russian bots in full force spreading a #Resist extremist Leftist agenda on social media--the same way they did with pro-Trump/neo-Nazi fake accounts. Be aware they are now shifting gears to rile up the Left. Don't fall for it.

The most dangerous white nationalists brainwashing us are not always people like Richard Spencer or David Duke. Those who mask their intentions behind "pseudo-philosophy, race realism, misogyny, and skepticism," like @StefanMolyneux, @SamHarrisOrg, and @JordanBPeterson are worse. They are gateway drugs to the harder stuff. A feeder mechanism, if you will. At best, they are knowingly being highly irresponsible and intellectually lazy. At worst, they are invisible whitnats by design.