New Year’s Day attacks by US service members highlight threat, says Bishop Garrison who led DoD investigation

Summary

Bishop Garrison, a former Pentagon official who led a 2021 investigation into military extremism, warns that recent New Year’s Day attacks by military personnel highlight the ongoing threat of radicalization and distress in the armed forces.

Despite a report recommending counter-extremism measures, its policies were never implemented, facing backlash from right-wing figures, including Trump’s defense secretary nominee, Pete Hegseth.

As Hegseth aims to dismantle counter-extremism programs, Garrison stresses the risks of neglecting the issue, citing cultural and mental health challenges within the military.

  • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
    415·
    9 months ago

    Lmao. You’re the one making claims about me being wrong, so you have to provide arguments for why that is. Saying “i know why you’re wrong, but that’s for you to find out” is lazy debating

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
      102·
      9 months ago

      Your premise is willfully devoid of any condition or nuance for deliberate effect. It deserves no respect.

      Extremes of government are authoritarian. Left or right. Extremes of personal ideologies can be violent or even terrorism. Extremism is harm.

      Believing things to be good like environmental regulation, universal health care, civil rights, or even in BLM is not extreme when they seek to undo or prevent objective harm and injustice. Maybe you are deliberately being stupid to make a point, but it’s patently obvious the parent comment pointed out the hypocrisy in labeling what constitutes extreme.

      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
        64·
        9 months ago

        Believing things to be good like environmental regulation, universal health care, civil rights, or even in BLM is not extreme when they seek to undo or prevent objective harm and injustice.

        I think there might have been a misunderstanding. When I mentioned left-wing extremism, I was referring specifically to ideologies like communism and their historical tendencies toward authoritarianism—not to more moderate left-wing policies like universal health care or civil rights, which I agree aren’t extreme. My point was that extremism, whether left or right, often leads to authoritarian outcomes

        • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
          42·
          9 months ago

          Then you should have expended the time to nuance your position rather than making an appeal to hypocrisy argument and wasting your and everyone else’s time. However, your argumentative follow up responses don’t really do your claim of “misunderstanding” any favors.

              • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
                31·
                9 months ago

                Oh i think i understand what you’re getting at now and i think we might end up being on the same page. I also prefer to use the political compass model. I was using the typical left-right spectrum as only a matter of simplicity, which is why i said left wing extremism can also be authoritarianism and not is always authoritarianism.

                This isn’t to say that communism is always authoritarian, but it depends on the ideology of the individual and how it’s implemented.

                I guess it would be better to say some authoritarian extreme left-wing ideologies are Stalinism and Maoism.

      • GrammarPolice@lemmy.world
        2·
        9 months ago

        It’s my neverending desire to present fairness to both sides of an argument. Something something broken clocks…