NBC Cherry Picks Facebook to Discredit Our Republic’s Ultimate Defenders

I read a recent NBC story -- In secret Facebook groups, America's best warriors share racist jabs, lies about 2020, even QAnon theories -- in which the writer, Carol Lee, alleges radicalization, extremism, and significant racism among US Special Operations Forces (SOF). Lee bases this over-the-top declaration because she gained access to four “secret” Facebook groups. She also approached some DoD officials with questions about extremism, leading to some run-of-the-mill responses. This is at best shoddy journalism and at worst a leftist hit piece on our most elite and dedicated military professionals.

To begin, these so-called “secret” groups are really “members only” groups that anyone can create on Facebook. No group or page on Facebook is truly private, let alone secret. One can only assume Lee uses the word “secret” to imply that something nefarious is going on and, by Lee’s definition, my members-only neighborhood group page is also secret and should invite media scrutiny.

I am a Special Forces (SF) disabled veteran and I belong to both groups mentioned in the article, “The Special Forces Brotherhood PAC” and “The Special Forces Team Room.” I belonged to others too, though admittedly, I spent relatively less time in the much smaller “Team Room.”

These are “members only” groups. The moderators require proof that you served in the US Army Special Forces to join. That these groups are Army only is important because Lee misleadingly implies that they are indicative of all SOF forces, which include units of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, and that would not be allowed into these two Amy SF groups.

>> The moderators require proof that you served in the US Army Special Forces to join.

So did she fabricate documents?

They threw the book at the undercover journalists who did this with Planned Parenthood.

One wonders if “racists jabs” are shared because dehumanizing your opponent, a millennia old strategy in warfare, also makes it easier for normal-thinking humans to cope with the difficulties of killing other human beings.

One also wonders if anyone ever considers the mental difficulties faced by our soldiers in coping with such killing, or if they just think its all like the movies, or even if it just never enters their head to consider such profoundly disturbing experiences and what they do to a person.

In every armed conflict, the enemy is called names. Gooks, Krauts, etc. come to mind from movies I have seen and books Ive read. It seems pretty normal to my thinking that if you think of your opponent as less than human it is easier to do these things, and deal with having done them after its over with.

Its very odd to me that anyone would villainize this sort of behavior in this context. Honestly, all it does is make me think less of the person calling out the behavior, because clearly they don’t understand and haven’t bothered to consider it. All they see is racist names and that gives them reason to scream about it for their own agenda without considering why they are being used.

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