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Peter Cytanovic is used to being hated.
By Charlotte McDonald-Gibson
Peter Cytanovic has become so accustomed to being hated that he rattles off some of the shocking messages he has received with the ease of going through a shopping list: 'Why don’t you just kill yourself?'; 'I’m going to come to Reno and kill you'; 'Die Nazi scum.'
Nearly five years ago, on August 11, 2017, Cytanovic travelled to Charlottesville, Virginia, to attend the Unite the Right rally, a gathering of white nationalists including Klu Klux Klan members, neo-Nazis, and white supremacists. As night fell, the angry crowd marched and chanted racist and anti-Semitic slogans. Cytanovic was in the thick of it, holding a tiki-torch aloft as he screamed at counter-protesters. A photographer captured the moment. Soon, his picture was everywhere. 'I was the face of white terror,' he tells me.
At the time, Cytanovic identified as a white nationalist, and held racist views: he supported the deportation of migrants and the ...
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