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Abstract
The European Commission is advocating Exit programmes for White Supremacists as part of its counter-radicalisation programme. The author critically examines the experiences of Sweden and Germany in using Exit with far-right extremists since the 1990s, and finds anti-racism itself being blamed by its practitioners who tend to see their clients as new victims. The programmes themselves have no effective evaluation mechanism of fascist disengagement and the fact that those who are ‘turned’ by Exit not only avoid sanctions but also can be made into public experts-cum-celebrities, is also problematic. But for governments this apolitical and malleable counter-radicalism industry, that distances itself from traditional anti-fascist values, is attractive.