Are culture wars really a distraction?

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It couldn’t be clearer, then, that the view of “culture wars” as purely distractions from “real”political struggle is seriously mistaken. The idea that concrete, “material” issues ought to mean a narrow focus on jobs and the economy – and not, say, uteruses – seems hard to justify.

Even the most hard-nosed materialist, ought to notice that decisions about school curricula determine whose values are listened to, and whose aren’t. That is, in even the most realpolitik of terms, the struggle being waged has real-world effects on redistribution of social and political power. And that redistribution is shifting power in the direction of the least honest, most bigoted and most authoritarian social forces on the political right.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...culture-wars-distraction-critical-race-theory
 
BidenPresident said:
It couldn’t be clearer, then, that the view of “culture wars” as purely distractions from “real”political struggle is seriously mistaken. The idea that concrete, “material” issues ought to mean a narrow focus on jobs and the economy – and not, say, uteruses – seems hard to justify.

Even the most hard-nosed materialist, ought to notice that decisions about school curricula determine whose values are listened to, and whose aren’t. That is, in even the most realpolitik of terms, the struggle being waged has real-world effects on redistribution of social and political power. And that redistribution is shifting power in the direction of the least honest, most bigoted and most authoritarian social forces on the political right.

https://www.theguardian.com/comment...culture-wars-distraction-critical-race-theory
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they are distracting from immediate conditions, but also important in their own right.

you will be defeated in both.
 
is there a left culture? is there a right culture? and are the positions of both of those cultures used in ways to divide the left and right further? and as we fight amongst ourselves to try and prove who is right and who is not, the government continues to restrict our freedoms while they laugh at us
 
SmarterthanYou said:
is there a left culture? is there a right culture? and are the positions of both of those cultures used in ways to divide the left and right further? and as we fight amongst ourselves to try and prove who is right and who is not, the government continues to restrict our freedoms while they laugh at us
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yes, yes, and yes.

and entering a brainless civil war is their ultimate victory over us.
 
AssHatZombie said:
they are distracting from immediate conditions, but also important in their own right.

you will be defeated in both.[/QUOTE
Since the thread is “Are culture wars really a distraction,” your post and syntax and sentence structure are grammatically correct.

“They (the wars) will be defeated in both” is grammatically correct...and factually correct, too.
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Earl said:
AssHatZombie said:
they are distracting from immediate conditions, but also important in their own right.

you will be defeated in both.[/QUOTE
Since the thread is “Are culture wars really a distraction,” your post and syntax and sentence structure are grammatically correct.

“They (the wars) will be defeated in both” is grammatically correct...and factually correct, too.
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I know.

these egghead confabulators cannot handle simple truths expressed simply.
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