Erasing Hate From Streets Around the World
Hateful graffiti has met its match: Corey Fleischer. Now, the Montreal activist’s Erasing Hate movement has gone global.
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For 5 years, Corey Fleischer has shared videos of himself erasing hateful messages, symbols, and graffiti in Montreal. Through his social media posts and his Erasing Hate movement he’s built a global following. In 2015, the YMCAs of Québec awarded Fleischer a peace medal for his work with Erasing Hate. Survivors of the Holocaust who volunteer at the Montreal Holocaust Memorial Center were also honored that year. He’s since erased hate symbols with Holocaust survivor Angela Richt, who was born in Auschwitz-Birkenau, the concentration camp where an estimated 1.1 million prisoners were murdered.
“If you watch me in my videos — and you see how enthusiastic I am. That's real deal. That is every time I do it. You're just seeing my emotions; you're seeing my feelings come out in the video. I put out a location on my social media. I put out the tools you'll need. I put the address and you'll literally see people running towards it. I could almost erase hate, you know, on the other side of the world faster than I can here in Montreal. Erasing Hate is the first movement of its kind that targets, locates, and eliminates hate speech anywhere in the world free of charge. I want to be able to show you guys at home how you’re able to make a difference with store-bought products. Here, I have nail polish remover. At that award ceremony, I had all 30 Holocaust survivors come to me and tell me how much it meant to me. That ceremony changed my life and I ended up leaving. And I got in my car and broke down. I was crying in my car for like 15 minutes from the magnitude of what transpired and, you know, it was important that it happened because that's when I started realizing that this was much bigger than myself.”
Fleischer says he’s excited for the next step in the evolution of Erasing Hate — a mobile app launching by early 2020.
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615 comments
Andre C.
07/28/2020 20:23That must have been a terrible headache ☹️.
Doux E.
07/20/2020 13:03More people should be like him,Spread some love ,hate we have enough
Hannah F.
07/16/2020 22:38Good for him, great guy :)
Kristian K.
07/07/2020 17:01And who care you think u hiro now 🙄
C E.
06/20/2020 17:57Positive adrenaline rush. Right On!
Isaias V.
02/11/2020 11:29I see kurt angle has a retirement plan.
John L.
02/11/2020 07:01And the Italian guy who paints over racist graffiti in Italy (btw, there is tons of graffiti in Italy, but most of it is more artistic or whimsical) These 2 should meet up
William F.
02/10/2020 22:35Why’s he wearing a plate carrier
Charlie A.
02/10/2020 22:18i love the idea, but some of that graffiti comes off way to easy! i know power washing is tough, but if it was that easy, we probably wouldn't have graffiti!
Rob O.
02/10/2020 16:10Is he removing the Communist symbols of hate?
Jesse P.
02/10/2020 11:47I didn't think it was possible to make powerwashing cringeworthy, but you did it.
John V.
02/10/2020 10:39this guy!
Patrick F.
02/09/2020 23:19Celtic cross a hate symbol ?
Tom M.
02/09/2020 22:53Why don’t you start with the hate for trump you can’t even say his name without people turning into cry babies
Blaine V.
02/09/2020 19:54Come to Resorts World casino NYC and spray these nasty slot machines. Good job tho buddy. No room for hate.
Freddy M.
02/09/2020 14:30I wish he would spray a couple of people that are spreading hateful speech!!!
Devin D.
02/09/2020 11:47He look like he got a kenke genkai
Timothy H.
02/08/2020 22:55Go clean up the White House and then I'll be impressed.
Eddie J.
02/08/2020 01:26The skin head for justice!
BBill A.
02/08/2020 00:28IS that Tito ORtiz?