Overcoming hate and helping others do it too

Written By Stuart McNish

Guest: Tony McAleer (co-founder, Life After Hate)

Curing hate is a tall order, one with little or no precedent. The job involves interactions with people who openly wear their hatred for someone else on their sleeve, who voice their hatred for others and call for the destruction of other people’s lives and communities.

There is no training for a job like this. Rather, it is a life mission. The only people who have a sliver of a chance of connecting and calling in haters are those who have lived both lives.

In this episode of Careers That Matter, Tony McAleer, a man who rose to high ranks within the white supremacist community and then left, takes us inside his career as the author of a movement that employs radical compassion to call people in, rather than call them out.

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