Tony McAleer, 49, became immersed in white supremacy at age 15 when some skinheads befriended him through a subculture of punk music. McAleer said it’s important for parents to regularly talk with their kids about issues such as last week’s nationalist rally in Charlottesville where a 20-year-old man allegedly rammed a vehicle into a crowd of anti-racists, including a young woman who was killed. “We got an email two days ago from a parent who said, my son’s got Asperger’s syndrome and he’s up to his eyeballs in this neo-Nazi white nationalist stuff. “From a really early age children are socialized to think that white people are the thinkers, the inventors, the ones that are good,” Stack said. “This notion that Canada is this multicultural place that doesn’t have a history of racism, of course it does.

Source: National Post August 18, 2017 15:24 UTC