The long read: Working for Hope Not Hate, I infiltrated an extremist organisation, befriended its members and got to work investigating their political connections

This is a long article (excerpts from a book apparently) but it’s interesting.

Basically the author, a man with Jewish heritage, makes a fake persona and joins far-right groups. He’s assisted by the group Hope Not Hate.

What do you think of the far-right? One of the interesting points that is made in the article a few times is that some far-right adherents, met by the author, seem to want friendship more than anything else. At least that’s the author’s view.

  • dependencyinjection@discuss.tchncs.de
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    3 days ago

    There is a great series with Stephen Graham about this very topic and it really does seem like a lot of disenfranchised men get sucked in.

    It’s called The Walk-In.