Synopsis

This inspiring new television documentary film, The Politics Of Hate, explores Christian Picciolini’s remarkable journey, featured on 60 Minutes, CBS Evening News, CNN and MSNBC, from a White Supremacist Leader to the founder of an NGO combatting hate.
When Christian became a father, he couldn’t raise his child in a world of hate. He found acceptance and forged friendships among many Jews, including the filmmaker, as he continues to speak with Jewish communities throughout the country about how our shared common experiences can create empathy and bring us together. He established a not for profit comprised of former white supremacists who now pull people out of extremists groups as they dedicate their lives to combating hate. This timely film also features Mark Potok, senior fellow at the Southern Poverty Law Center, an organization at the forefront of combatting hate and Menhaz Afridi, a Muslim American woman who is an advisor to the US Holocaust Museum and Director of a Holocaust and Genocide Center. The film sheds light on the last hundred years of hate in the USA from the rise of fascism during the 1920s, the interconnection between fascism in the US and Germany that led to the Holocaust straight thru to Charlottesville and the Russian government support of far right groups both in the US and Europe while highlighting how great progress is met with a fierce backlash that ultimately leads to a better future.