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A white supremacist took MDMA for a study, and it snapped him out of his beliefs: 'Why am I doing this?' (www.insider.com)
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[–] bumbly@readit.buzz 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One human does not make a trend, but it is interesting. They'd have to test many more white supremacists to see if the effect will be same for the majority of test subjects.

If it were a "cure" then the right-wingers would become very scared of getting drugged.

Edit:

MDMA has, for instance, been used by the Taliban to channel connection to the divine during prayer chants, according to Nuwer.

Nuwer pointed out that Brendan's "seemingly spontaneous change" appears to be an exception to the norm.

Read the article guys. Won't work for everyone and could maybe even be used by White Supremacists to be more like the taliban.