A former white nationalist leader who attended the notorious “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville said he changed his extremist views after taking ecstasy as part of a scientific study, accor…
A former white nationalist leader who attended the notorious “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville said he changed his extremist views after taking ecstasy as part of a scientific study, according to researchers.
The researchers looked up Brendan and discovered he had been the leader of a US Midwest faction of Identity Evropa, a notorious white nationalist group rebranded in 2019 as the American Identity Movement. They later reached out to Brendan asking him to clarify what he meant by his comments at the bottom of the survey.“This is stuff you can’t really put into words, but it was so profound,” Brendan said of his experience with the drug.Getty Images/iStock photo
Brendan said he had leaned left while growing up but became more right after joining a conservative fraternity at the University of Illinois. “Isn’t that amazing?” de Wit said. “It’s what everyone says about this damn drug, that it makes people feel love. To think that a drug could change somebody’s beliefs and thoughts without any expectations – it’s mind-boggling.”
Still, he said he knew of other white supremacists who had previously used MDMA but had not changed their minds.
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