{"id":120646,"date":"2018-02-23T14:48:50","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T22:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120646"},"modified":"2023-08-20T13:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-08-20T21:03:34","slug":"wp-i-dont-know-how-you-got-this-way-a-neo-nazis-family-wonders-if-they-can-get-him-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120646","title":{"rendered":"WP: \u2018I don\u2019t know how you got this way\u2019: A neo-Nazi\u2019s family wonders if they can get him back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>!function(r,u,m,b,l,e){r._Rumble=b,r[b]||(r[b]=function(){(r[b]._=r[b]._||[]).push(arguments);if(r[b]._.length==1){l=u.createElement(m),e=u.getElementsByTagName(m)[0],l.async=1,l.src=\"https:\/\/rumble.com\/embedJS\/uajap1\"+(arguments[1].video?'.'+arguments[1].video:'')+\"\/?url=\"+encodeURIComponent(location.href)+\"&args=\"+encodeURIComponent(JSON.stringify([].slice.apply(arguments))),e.parentNode.insertBefore(l,e)}})}(window, document, \"script\", \"Rumble\");<\/script><\/p>\n<div id=\"rumble_vfz483\"><\/div>\n<p><script>\nRumble(\"play\", {\"video\":\"vfz483\",\"div\":\"rumble_vfz483\"});<\/script><\/p>\n<p><A HREF=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/local\/wp\/2018\/02\/23\/feature\/i-dont-know-how-you-got-this-way-a-young-neo-nazi-reveals-himself-to-his-family\/?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_supremacistrecruit-1202pm%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&#038;utm_term=.05ff9506d3bc\">Washington Post<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What Kam was doing, and what he wasn\u2019t, had come to dominate so much in their lives. He was two years out of high school now, and he didn\u2019t have a job, or a car, or a place of his own, or much money beyond what his mother gave him \u2014 nothing at all to occupy his time except a computer that had carried him to the most extreme parts of the Internet, and to beliefs that no one in his family could understand. In the year since the 2016 presidential election, Kam had gone from supporting white supremacists, to joining a neo-Nazi group, to shouting \u201cwhite lives matter\u201d at a rally, to standing beside Richard Spencer outside the White House, to increasingly tense conversations with his mother and grandmother, both of whom were beginning to fear that what they had once thought was just a phase was quickly becoming his life.<\/p>\n<p>How did this happen?<\/p>\n<p>Where did these ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>Could he still be saved?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Post: What Kam was doing, and what he wasn\u2019t, had come to dominate so much in their lives. He was two years out of high school now, and he didn\u2019t have a job, or a car, or a place &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=120646\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42720,4272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alt-right","category-nazi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=120646"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":150205,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120646\/revisions\/150205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=120646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=120646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=120646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}