"White pride, it's back! ...Because it never left," Samantha Bee declared in Wednesday's episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee. "Emboldened racists are even wearing their white pride after Labor Day, which is just wrong."
In a segment edited to look like the best conspiracy theory videos, Bee investigates the country's biggest threat (according to a former homeland security analyst): homegrown white terrorism.
Bee heads up to Portand, Oregon -- a city with a modern reputation for liberalism but in a state literally founded by KKK members. She tracks down Christian Piccolini, a former neo-Nazi who started Life After Hate.
"Many of the reasons why people join ISIS are the same reasons people become neo-Nazis," he tells Bee in an interview. His organization has helped over 100 people disengage from the rhetoric of white supremacy and they are currently crowdfunding to do more. Bee even pulls in Portlandia's Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein in a PSA about combating hate and maybe even hugging Nazis to heal them with love.
"White people created this problem and it's our job to fix it," Piccolini says.
Full Frontal airs Wednesdays at 10:30 p.m. on TBS.
Topics Activism
