Can you explain to me what do you think is in the air these days that induces a bright, ambitious young woman to get herself into Harvard and then, after graduating and nailing a high status job at a big time accounting firm, posts a TikTok video that immediately renders her unsuitable for employment anywhere?
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What is in the air? And why is it happening? The answer is that these ideas have been percolating by design in academia for decades; and this woman is a product of forces far beyond her understanding. Forces from the top, and not from the bottom. — fishfry
Black Lives Matter is one more chapter in the efforts of working people (this time primarily blacks) to get out from under the heavy hand of the bourgeois capitalists. — Bitter Crank
I think we’re past the culture wars. One side didn’t show up. Thus most institutions lean in a certain direction. — NOS4A2
The war is not for culture, though. It's for power. One side doesn't want it, they just want to stop the power grab. They're too concerned with culture, because "politics is downstream of culture." Well, that depends on the power structure.
So they did actually show up to the culture war, with their culture of conserving the system.
There is utterly a culture war. I place the blame squarely at the feet of the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. — hypericin
Before Eisenhower?Because the history since before Eisenhower has been - mostly - Democrats being the good guys — tim wood
Segregation is not humiliating, but a benefit, and ought to be so regarded by you gentlemen.
In the matter of Chinese and Japanese coolie immigration, I stand for the national policy of exclusion. We cannot make a homogenous population out of people who do not blend with the Caucasian race… Oriental Coolieism will give us another race problem to solve and surely we have had our lesson.
Not odd at all. I define the right as a "Tribalistic fealty to power". A spiritual hierarchy of Immigrants < Unbelievers < Believers < Wealthy Believers < Priests & Anointed Politicians < J-Man & G-Man holds appeal for those with this kind of disposition.It is odd that Christians tend be on the right, while those with no god to care for them, tend to be on the left. — Athena
Oh, but I did.Quite a lengthy reply from someone who didn't trouble to read past my first sentence! — hypericin
The US doesn't have a representative democracy because it works with plurality. People are becoming aware the political system doesn't work for their benefit and the minority that benefitted from it thinks there's a culture war going on. Lol. — Benkei
I think we’re past the culture wars. One side didn’t show up. Thus most institutions lean in a certain direction. Nowadays it’s closer to a cultural revolution than war. — NOS4A2
The war is not for culture, though. It's for power. One side doesn't want it, they just want to stop the power grab. They're too concerned with culture, because "politics is downstream of culture." Well, that depends on the power structure. — Kev
Even the most conservative of politicians is forced to play catch-up to it. — NOS4A2
A while ago, Trump probably was not interested in culture or history. Nevertheless, after the Mount Rushmore speech, he can make his 'defence' of American heritage (and Mount Rushmore sculptures) the main message of his campaign. Therefore, the culture war may escalate. — Number2018
There is no winning option on the right. The culture will continue to change in the direction it always has — Kev
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