The Breakup: Samantha Freedom on Leaving The Alt-Right
A Little Bit Culty \u2013
What happens when you find a sense of identity, and belonging, and maybe even something approximately like love within a group that is in fact a violent and racist extremist organization? And if by chance you wake up to what's inherently terrible about it, and manage to escape that thinking, how do you then seek redemption? In 2017, Samantha Freedom was the top ranking woman leader in Identity Evropa, the white nationalist organization behind the violent Charlottesville, Virginia \u2018Unite the Right\u2019 rally that resulted in the death of 20 year old Heather Heyer. That event was when Samantha\u2019s descent into white supremacy, something she\u2019s described as a \u2018fever dream,\u2019 finally began to break. Samantha joins Sarah and Nippy for a frank and sometimes painful conversation about her journey in and out of the alt-right, and why she\u2019s nowhere near done when it comes to making things right.
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