Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Cults, Culture & Coercion with Dr. Steve Hassan

Indigenous People: Desiree Kane Talks About Genocide and Healing the Wounds

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Dr. Steven Hassan
Jul 22, 2021
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I am delighted to talk today with Desiree Kane, who I first met doing a TEDxMid Atlantic program titled Dismantling QAnon. Desiree is a Miwok journalist and activist. We have had several occasions to share our professional expertise and personal commitment to freeing people from undue influence and authoritarian control. In particular, Desiree has helped me understand more about the terrible genocide perpetrated against Indigenous People in the United States and Canada. Desiree and other Indigenous People like Cindy Blackstock, Professor of Social Work at McGill University and Executive Director of First Nations Child & Family Caring Society, reached out and found the Influence Continuum and BITE Model of Authoritarian Control a potential tool to help explain how Undue Influence and Brainwashing can be identified.

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