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America doesn't just disagree anymore-we pre-decide who is allowed to disagree. The moment a label lands, the person disappears. In Scripted Conflict, Derek Hone traces the hidden pipeline that turns neighbors into rival teams. What starts as harmless sorting-street-team pride, school tryouts, birth-year brackets-quietly mutates into moral rosters that decide who counts, who's suspect, and who can be dismissed without listening. With a broadcaster's eye for how phrases spread, Hone shows how generational tags (""boomer,"" ""Gen Z""), political jerseys (""left,"" ""right,"" ""woke,"" ""evangelical""), and sex-and-status slang degrade dignity and harden tribes. Then he exposes the modern kill-switch label-""conspiracy theorist""-a word that doesn't weigh evidence so much as revoke a person's right to ask. This isn't a call to abandon discernment. It's a call to abandon contempt as a worldview. Blending personal story, cultural analysis, and a Christ-shaped ethic of neighbor-love, Scripted Conflict reveals: - how labels move from convenience to control - why broadcast and algorithmic systems reward identity war - how reasonable questions get converted into forbidden people - what real divides labels hide-and why scapegoating can't heal them - how to re-humanize opponents without surrendering truth The book ends where diagnosis must end: with repair. Hone offers a practical ""vocabulary of peoplehood""-ways to speak about difference that keep claims testable and people human. You'll find discussion prompts for groups, a short prayer for readers, and clear practices for resisting the scripts in your own home, church, workplace, and feed. If you're exhausted by team-talk, tired of being reduced, or hungry for a nation that can argue without erasing, Scripted Conflict is a way back to seeing the face before the label-clarity without cruelty, discernment without exile, truth without dehumanization.

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