Study Disproves #ResistanceMedia and Democrat Propaganda That Military People Are Particularly Likely to Become "Domestic Extremists"

Just because Biden claim this to justify purging the military officer corps, and the FBI agent corps, of conservatives, doesn't make it true.

Veterans are less likely to support far-right or far-left extremist groups than the general public despite increased attention, particularly from Democratic lawmakers, on current and former military members' ties to extremist organizations, according to a study released Tuesday by the RAND Corporation.

Among a survey of nearly 1,000 veterans representative of the national population, RAND, a nonprofit firm that conducts research for the Department of Defense (DOD), found no evidence to support the notion that veterans are more likely to support or be a part of extremist groups than Americans in general. Concerns that extremist groups may single out veterans for recruitment into their organizations, and the seemingly disproportional representation of veterans among the Jan. 6 Capitol protesters, prompted calls to investigate and address a perceived problem of extremism in the military.

"Given the anecdotal information about extremist group recruitment preferences and their active targeting of veterans, we would have assumed that these reported prevalence rates would be higher," Todd Helmus, a senior behavioral scientist at RAND and the study's lead author, said in a press release.

Why would you assume that anything The Regime says has a foundation in fact?

Researchers suspected that extremist organizations could prey on active duty and former military members to bolster their legitimacy and take advantage of the skills and training military service affords, according to RAND. In addition, military members are more often white and male, factors associated with membership in right-wing extremist groups, and more likely to seek out the type of fellowship found in a tight-knit organization.

I seem to notice that one is permitted to make racialized attacks on whites which would never, ever be countenanced if these statements were made against blacks.

It is utterly beyond question that black males engage in violent criminality at huge rates. But even though every FBI report on criminal statistics proves this, you're not allowed to say it, and you risk deplatforming or debanking by noting the truth.

But white men? You can take "anecdotal reports," spread by leftwing racial arsonists, and just assert without evidence that they're eager to join "right-wing terrorist groups."

"Those initial reports spurred a lot of fear and concern," Helmus told NPR. "But no one's actually looked at the numbers."

You don't say. You mean they just made up a smear against a race they hate without any evidence to support it?

You don't say. You don't f*cking say.

In January 2021, after the Capitol riots, 15 Democratic lawmakers pressed the DOD Inspector General to root out extremism in the ranks in a letter.

I can't wait for the Counter-Purge.

posted by Ace at 05:00 PM

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