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Loretta Ross

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TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

I mean, I'd gotten shot at as a 10-year-old in Mississippi. There was nothing in me that made me want to... feel any empathy for someone who is a Klansman and proud of it. There are accidental racists, there are reluctant racists. These are the proud racists. But anyway, part of my job was talking to Floyd Cochran. And Floyd Cochran had become the national spokesman for the Aryan Nations.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

He'd become a Nazi when he was 14 years old and now he's 35, 21 years in the hate movement. And Floyd's epiphany change of heart, if you can call it that, happened when his second son was born with a cleft palate. And his Nazi buddies told him that his son was a genetic defect who needed to be put to death.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

He'd become a Nazi when he was 14 years old and now he's 35, 21 years in the hate movement. And Floyd's epiphany change of heart, if you can call it that, happened when his second son was born with a cleft palate. And his Nazi buddies told him that his son was a genetic defect who needed to be put to death.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

He'd become a Nazi when he was 14 years old and now he's 35, 21 years in the hate movement. And Floyd's epiphany change of heart, if you can call it that, happened when his second son was born with a cleft palate. And his Nazi buddies told him that his son was a genetic defect who needed to be put to death.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And that was Floyd's wake-up call, like, oh wow, these are the people I'm hanging out with, they want to kill my child, it's okay if they kill all the Jews and the Blacks and the Queers, but my child kind of thing. And so, when I met Floyd, I was prepared to be disgusted by him. It felt kind of like,

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And that was Floyd's wake-up call, like, oh wow, these are the people I'm hanging out with, they want to kill my child, it's okay if they kill all the Jews and the Blacks and the Queers, but my child kind of thing. And so, when I met Floyd, I was prepared to be disgusted by him. It felt kind of like,

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And that was Floyd's wake-up call, like, oh wow, these are the people I'm hanging out with, they want to kill my child, it's okay if they kill all the Jews and the Blacks and the Queers, but my child kind of thing. And so, when I met Floyd, I was prepared to be disgusted by him. It felt kind of like,

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Du hast dein Bett gemacht, du liegst darin, also warum muss ich mich darum kümmern, dass du von dem Arian Nations-Komponenten ausgeworfen wurdest? Sag mir, warum muss ich mich darum kümmern? Aber Floyd war überraschend intelligent und lustig und selbstkritisch, nachdem er endlich wuchs. Und er hatte einen schönen Sinn für Ironie und war unglaublich heimisch.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Du hast dein Bett gemacht, du liegst darin, also warum muss ich mich darum kümmern, dass du von dem Arian Nations-Komponenten ausgeworfen wurdest? Sag mir, warum muss ich mich darum kümmern? Aber Floyd war überraschend intelligent und lustig und selbstkritisch, nachdem er endlich wuchs. Und er hatte einen schönen Sinn für Ironie und war unglaublich heimisch.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Du hast dein Bett gemacht, du liegst darin, also warum muss ich mich darum kümmern, dass du von dem Arian Nations-Komponenten ausgeworfen wurdest? Sag mir, warum muss ich mich darum kümmern? Aber Floyd war überraschend intelligent und lustig und selbstkritisch, nachdem er endlich wuchs. Und er hatte einen schönen Sinn für Ironie und war unglaublich heimisch.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

All the things that you would not have suspected if you saw his public performance as a national spokesman. Quoting the Bible along with Mein Kampf with Equal Ease. He was really fascinating. But sadly, he was also the consequence of dedicating his life to hate groups. Because Floyd didn't have any marketable skills. He couldn't get a job.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

All the things that you would not have suspected if you saw his public performance as a national spokesman. Quoting the Bible along with Mein Kampf with Equal Ease. He was really fascinating. But sadly, he was also the consequence of dedicating his life to hate groups. Because Floyd didn't have any marketable skills. He couldn't get a job.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

All the things that you would not have suspected if you saw his public performance as a national spokesman. Quoting the Bible along with Mein Kampf with Equal Ease. He was really fascinating. But sadly, he was also the consequence of dedicating his life to hate groups. Because Floyd didn't have any marketable skills. He couldn't get a job.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Wenn du in einem Hate-Group bist, entwickelst du kein Resümee, von dem jemand dich hinstellen möchte, richtig? His only developed talent was as a demagogue and even how he joined the hate movement. Floyd was just a skinny white kid in upstate New York who was bullied at school and he really was suffering.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Wenn du in einem Hate-Group bist, entwickelst du kein Resümee, von dem jemand dich hinstellen möchte, richtig? His only developed talent was as a demagogue and even how he joined the hate movement. Floyd was just a skinny white kid in upstate New York who was bullied at school and he really was suffering.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Wenn du in einem Hate-Group bist, entwickelst du kein Resümee, von dem jemand dich hinstellen möchte, richtig? His only developed talent was as a demagogue and even how he joined the hate movement. Floyd was just a skinny white kid in upstate New York who was bullied at school and he really was suffering.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And then he found that once he put on a swastika, instead of him being afraid, everybody was afraid of him. It was just that simple. And I see that in a lot of alienated white youth, today even. If they can go around making other people afraid, they can disguise their own fears.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And then he found that once he put on a swastika, instead of him being afraid, everybody was afraid of him. It was just that simple. And I see that in a lot of alienated white youth, today even. If they can go around making other people afraid, they can disguise their own fears.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

And then he found that once he put on a swastika, instead of him being afraid, everybody was afraid of him. It was just that simple. And I see that in a lot of alienated white youth, today even. If they can go around making other people afraid, they can disguise their own fears.

TED Talks Daily
Sunday Pick: Cancelling cancel culture with Loretta Ross | ReThinking with Adam Grant

Es braucht zu viel Energie, um Leute zu hassen. Ich habe das immer so angenehm gefunden. Als Kind fand ich das angenehm. Und so investieren so viel Zeit und Aufmerksamkeit in jemanden, den ich einfach ignorieren kann, macht einfach mehr Sinn für mich. Ich meine, wenn ich ihm die Aufmerksamkeit bezahlen würde, würde ich ihn zu einem Crisps frieren.