Five stories in the news for today, Aug. 18
Five stories in the news for Friday, Aug. 18
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FORMER NEO-NAZI SAYS YOUTH CAN TURN FROM HATE
The recent racist violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, has a former neo-Nazi from Vancouver urging parents to talk with their kids about the dangers of white-supremacist-fuelled hate. Tony McAleer was befriended by skinheads who introduced him to punk music when he was a teen, and for 15 years he lived a violent lifestyle hating non-whites and gay people. McAleer says disconnected youth can easily be lured into hateful thinking via the internet, but parents need to speak openly with their kids and get help from groups such as one he co-founded, called Life After Hate.