Thursday, March 07, 2019

What Would a Hybrid Civil War Look Like? | Belmont Club

What Would a Hybrid Civil War Look Like? | Belmont Club
"Hardly a day goes by without the tempo of political hostility rising -- sometimes to the level of physical confrontation. 
Recently, "a man being sought for the assault of a conservative activist on the University of California, Berkeley campus [was] arrested."
See the source imageThere is less and less regret for incivility. 
Nobody says sorry anymore, they just retreat into a private reality where they are always right. 
The Washington Post, still reeling from misidentifying the victim and aggressor in a story about Covington Catholic High School students and activist Nathan Phillips, simply slapped itself on the wrist with an Editor's Note admitting it got its account wrong and declared it all square. 
That was better than YouTube, which allegedly deplatformed a retired Navy SEAL who debunked Nathan Phillips' claim that he was a Vietnam vet.
Retired Navy Seal Don Shipley has made it his life's mission to expose these shameless charlatans. His channel had 232,806 subscribers at the time it was taken down and had been in operation since around 2008.
He told PJ Media that he thinks his channel was taken down because he had "outed Nathan Phillips," who had "masqueraded as a Vietnam vet."
In Britain, politicians are calling for the frank censorship of "hate speech."
...Is America already in a state of civil hybrid war from which only one winner can emerge?
 The problem with Trojan horses and the reason they're so effective is that they remain ambiguous until it's almost too late."
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