10/27/2025
Join us Wednesday November 12 at 5:30 p.m. for a talk by Dr. Craig Johnson about his book, “How to Talk to Your Son About Fascism.”
Immanuel Presbyterian Church, 901 N J Street, Tacoma, WA
This talk will help you understand how the far-right recruits young people online, specifically young men, into hateful thinking and action. Dr. Johnson will also discuss what you can do about it.
Craig Johnson is a PhD from UC Berkeley, and has spent the last ten years studying the right-wing globally. He says the key to stopping right-wing hate is a secret weapon they’re unprepared for: empathy and understanding.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
“How to Talk to Your Son about Fascism” is a practical guide for parents, caregivers, and others with young men in their lives about how to talk with them about fascism and the right-wing, which specifically and particularly preys on them for recruitment.
Its central goal is to present research, history, and analysis about how and why the right-wing recruits young men to parents, educators, and anyone with a young person in their lives. The book covers the history of right-wing recruitment of young men, explaining why the right-wing focuses on recruiting men both on a theoretical basis and through the logic of movement-building, and then moves to practical analysis and suggestions for how to counter recruitment today. Recommendations come from excerpts and existing scholarship. Readers will finish the book with a better understanding of what fascism is and how it works, how it preys on young men, how it recruits and appeals to them, and how to stop this from happening.
This book will be of interest to anti-fascist researchers and activists, as well as parents and the general reader concerned about the rise of the extreme right.
