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   From: bksherman@twitter.com   
      
   LONG BEACH, CA—A small but rapidly growing subset of Americans   
   have been gathering in hordes to engage in dangerous acts of   
   polite discourse. These impassioned radicals are embracing   
   extreme positions of affability and toxic cordiality, abandoning   
   the long-held progressive ideals of extreme partisanship and   
   treating anyone who is not committed to your tribe like an   
   insect to be crushed.   
      
   The Southern Poverty Law Center says that it is currently   
   tracking more than 2,300 extremist civility groups in the   
   country, citing an alarmingly high rate of instances of open   
   interactions at unprecedented levels of respectfulness.   
      
   “It’s like they’re trying to set the clock back,” said extremism   
   advocate Duncan Whitehead. “We thought the troubling days of   
   people like G.K. Chesterton and George Bernard Shaw—two men with   
   wildly opposing viewpoints yet a disturbing amount of respect   
   for each other— were far behind us.”   
      
   Liberal activist Danica Hartley says the movement is driven by   
   “privilege.” “If you’re treating your neighbor with respect,   
   you’re part of the problem,” she said. “Our party didn’t spend   
   decades enraging and dividing people just to have groups like   
   these reigniting the tired, dead philosophy of loving your   
   neighbor.”   
      
   One of the most disquieting features of this movement is that   
   the cult-like membership includes people who come from diverse   
   ethnicities, genders, ages, religions, and political parties.   
   “Some people think that super far-alt-right neo-Nazi Jews like   
   Ben Shapiro could never sit in the same room with a secular   
   leftist like Sam Harris, but people need to wake up to the   
   reality that this is happening. Friendships are forming between   
   liberals and conservatives at a disgusting rate. This isn’t just   
   a couple guys meeting to banter across party lines in Dave   
   Rubin’s garage. This is a growing movement and it’s getting   
   bigger,” warned civility awareness activist Marlena Parveneh.   
      
   Even with YouTube demonetizing videos and Twitter suspending the   
   accounts of people who have engaged in seditious acts of   
   reasoned debate and seeking common ground with ideological   
   opponents, the movement continues to grow. The media has been   
   warned not to provide the groups with undue publicity, but   
   evidence shows the media has done everything in their power to   
   ignore them. “We don’t cover these groups at all,” said CEO of   
   NBC Brian Hammond who has been disturbed by the audacity of   
   these groups to build large audiences without the approval of   
   mainstream media sources.   
      
   “This movement could destroy everything we have worked for,”   
   said white nationalist Barry McGraw in a panel discussion with   
   far-left journalists, KKK, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, MAGA hat   
   guys, Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminists, and other groups   
   built on the principles of division and dehumanization. “If we   
   don’t get to work, we could wake up tomorrow and people who want   
   to work together despite their differences could suddenly be   
   running things. We have to stand up and protect unhinged   
   outrage. This cancer of courtesy can only be neutralized by   
   every one of us spreading the essential human values of discord,   
   rage, and a refusal to engage with anyone who does not agree   
   with us 1,000%.”   
      
   https://babylonbee.com/news/new-extremist-political-movement-   
   recklessly-engages-in-civil-discourse   
       
      
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