{"id":73085,"date":"2017-06-29T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2017-06-29T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=73085"},"modified":"2017-06-29T07:05:27","modified_gmt":"2017-06-29T11:05:27","slug":"popular-military-and-witch-hunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=73085","title":{"rendered":"Popular Military and witch hunts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, someone posted this on one of our Facebook groups – an opinion piece on Popular Military entitled; Veteran shames autistic teen for stolen valor, \u2018witch hunts\u2019 need to end<\/a> and it’s about how the Stolen Valor investigations need to end.<\/p>\n

As service members and veterans, we are better than that. We should really start doing more research into such matters and quit justifying our own personal miseries in the form of lashing out at every single case of \u201cstolen valor\u201d without doing any sleuthing of our own. Much like videos of police shootings, it is very easy to take something out of context.<\/p>\n

I could have eviscerated a special needs kid today. A lot of my readers would have shared it (many without even reading the article) and this kid\u2019s life would have been more miserable than it might already be- and for what? To engage in a poorly-researched \u201cstolen valor\u201d fury-orgy akin to the behavior of the Social Justice Warriors many of us hold contempt for?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, well, Popular Military has been fueling these “witch hunts”. They’ve posted almost every video that they’ve received and they’ve encouraged people to confront the liars and record the confrontation. It has resulted in some occasional violent confrontations. They are hacks of the worst kind. Someone remarked to me yesterday that they are the National Enquirer of stolen valor and I agree. <\/p>\n

So they finally didn’t post one video and they think that they can scold the rest of us. I turn down cases everyday because they don’t reach the standard that you expect from us. I suspect that the only reason Popular Military wrote that piece yesterday was so they could post the video without getting chewed out by the rest of the community – yes, I chew them out in private when they post some of their crap. And yes, they posted the video despite their scolding the rest of us for doing that.<\/p>\n

I went looking for their videos yesterday for examples, but apparently they’ve scrubbed them. I did however find one of my posts from two years ago<\/a> criticizing them for encouraging the shaming of a Vietnam veteran.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I tried to comment on their post yesterday and my comment suspiciously disappeared. Fortunately, I have another avenue with which to express my opinion and it’s Google-icious. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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