HuffPo: ‘Becoming a Racist’ is ‘Unfortunate Side Effect of Serving Your Country’

Truth Revolt
August 29, 2017

This is the kind of subversive bilge that gushes from The Huffington Post and other left-wing outlets like a fountain.  

“Becoming A Racist: The Unfortunate Side Effect Of Serving Your Country,” is the headline of a recent HuffPo op-ed penned by contributor David Fagin. The author describes himself as a “musician, Trump Resister” and “food snob.” Yes, those sound like highly reputable credentials.

In his America-hating piece (which you can already infer from the title is the entire point), the author posits that veterans returning from tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, or police officers who’ve patrolled inner cities, become “racist” as a result of their negative experiences with those who differ from them:

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Vice News’ Elle Reeve mentions that security for the neo-Nazis was not provided by the Charlottesville police, as one might expect, but by veterans of the Iraq/Afghan war.

To hear that these veterans claim they were ‘radicalized’ in Iraq and Afghanistan during their tours of duty is one of the more unfortunate things to come to light regarding the side-effects of serving your country.

By now, we’re all familiar with PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) and even with proper treatment, the debilitating state it can leave a returning soldier in, sometimes for the rest of their lives.

But to learn that these brave men and women over there return with a new-found hatred for those different from them, especially after their mission is one of liberation from those who kill and persecute anyone of different faiths/beliefs, is quite disturbing to say the least.

My uncle was a lieutenant in the NYPD for over 40 years. He was a kind and loving man. Unfortunately, patrolling the streets of The Bronx and Queens during the sixties and seventies, and seeing what human beings are capable of…

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