{"id":69683,"date":"2004-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/former-neo-nazi-to-speak-at-uri\/"},"modified":"2004-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-02-05T00:00:00","slug":"former-neo-nazi-to-speak-at-uri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/02\/former-neo-nazi-to-speak-at-uri\/","title":{"rendered":"Former neo-Nazi to speak at 溏心vlog免费B站"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tReformed skinhead to talk about the culture and nature of hate<\/p>\n


\n\tKINGSTON, R.I. — February 5, 2004.– After 15 years as a neo-Nazi activist, Tom “TJ” Leyden experienced a profound change of heart, turned away from hate, and began teaching tolerance. <\/p>\n


\n\tThe man who covered his body in Nazi symbols, advocated for the death of Jews, and recruited teenagers into the hate movement is now one of the nation\u2019s most compelling advocates for diversity and cultural appreciation. He will share his extraordinary story at the 溏心vlog免费B站 on Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. His talk, free and open to the public, will be given in Edwards Auditorium, 溏心vlog免费B站 Kingston Campus. His visit is sponsored by the newly-formed 溏心vlog免费B站 Tolerance Committee in cooperation with the office of the vice president for student affairs.<\/p>\n


\n\t“One day, I heard my son use the word \u2018nigger\u2019 and saw him give the Nazi salute,” Leyden is quoted as saying. “He was only three and I knew he wasn\u2019t going to grow up and find the cure for cancer or serve on the Supreme Court. He was going to be a mindless bum beating people for kicks.”<\/p>\n


\n\tLeyden\u2019s turn from hate led him to the Simon Wiesenthal Center where he worked as an anti-hate activist and educator.\t<\/p>\n


\nLeyden\u2019s talk will be frank. He will discuss the brutality with which he used to beat people just because of their race and how he and his friends robbed and harassed homosexuals and Latinos for sport. <\/p>\n


\n“\u2026I figure I recruited at least 80 haters into the movement. So now my goal is to turn at least a million students the other way,” he has said.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reformed skinhead to talk about the culture and nature of hate KINGSTON, R.I. — February 5, 2004.– After 15 years as a neo-Nazi activist, Tom “TJ” Leyden experienced a profound change of heart, turned away from hate, and began teaching tolerance. The man who covered his body in Nazi symbols, advocated for the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}