Hardened Hearts

‘Pharaoh’ (2018)

The first response I get when I tell people I see something of myself in alt-right, American Nazis is rightful confusion. I am their antithesis in every way, ideologically and simply logically i.e. I am an empathetic Jewish man who uses empirical fact to understand history and circumstance. However, beneath the constant bigoted anger of these White men, I see a cry for help familiar from my teenage years. I see where their paths and mine diverted, and how they…