I just want to reiterate that fighting fascism includes the “cultural war.” Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool. - ThreadSky

link.spacelawshitpost.me • 16 days ago

I just want to reiterate that fighting fascism includes the “cultural war.” Anyone who tells you otherwise is a fool.

The culture war in schools like “should Black history be taught at all” and “should trans kids be allowed to exist peacefully at school.” Trivial shit like that.

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jokadhd.bsky.social•16 days ago

Culture war is just a conman's trick its a distraction while they pick the marks pocket its all made up outrage against common sense decency of letting people live their lives.
Freedom of expression is a human right and america is breaking its freedom of speech amendment cancel culture is not real.

jokadhd.bsky.social•16 days ago

You cant cancel anyone in the modern world and whoever says they are being limited is lying because why is one of the largest independent leftist journalists andrew callaghan still leftist and growing? they are openly leftists but they are not hypocritical like democrats or grifters like TYT he has

jokadhd.bsky.social•16 days ago

values he refuses to give up and human rights of everyone even maga is what he cares about and he shows its the american system and culture that causes most of the crazy shit in america because money influences everything and the wealthy love infighting of the working class and andrew is breaking it

zombiscribe.bsky.social•16 days ago

Louder for the people in the back!!!!!

lazear.bsky.social•16 days ago

Arguably the culture war is one the key fronts in the battle against fascism. But a lot of people are too wedded to the economic arguments or a desire for blood to understand why it matters to force them back.

bellamyj.bsky.social•16 days ago

"It's a distraction."

No, no, it is not. They're 100% serious.

link.spacelawshitpost.me•16 days ago

Please don’t get distracted from the fascism by focusing on the fascism.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•16 days ago

One wonders what they think fascism even is?

bellamyj.bsky.social•16 days ago

Fascism is when white people suffer.

dankeevy.bsky.social•16 days ago

Oh my, I guess it's time to look into fascism...

aslangk.bsky.social•16 days ago

...white people suffer as well.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•16 days ago

But white people suffer under fascism. A common idea under Nazi Germany was "Hitler must not know" about the brutality of the SS to the "Aryan" population. And part of the right's "culture war" is championing things that objectively don't work, like debunked pedagogy.

solidarity5ever.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm not centering the suffering of white people under fascism. I'm just pointing out that fascism sucks across the board.

bellamyj.bsky.social•16 days ago

I'm not looking to debate. This was a shorthand statement in a character limited box making a very specific point.

agtmadcat.bsky.social•16 days ago

Honestly yeah that's a pretty good (eurocentric) shorthand for the definition of fascism that it's when the tools of imperialism are turned inwards.

edvtercero.bsky.social•16 days ago

"Culture war" was never a very useful term, since it was mostly used by reactionaries to pretend they were fighting for something not pathetic and spiteful. Most people have no idea what a "culture war" is, but they can understand republicans and other fash being evil scumbags.

deardara.bsky.social•16 days ago

They’re the ones attacking and attacking, and women & trans & LGBTQ+ folk & POC are the ones just trying to exist. It’s like the 1920s when white mobs murdering black people got both-sides-ed as “race riots.” The culture war is simply more than half of the country insisting we are people.

vmcf.bsky.social•16 days ago

I hate the way a lot of MSM gets culture wars and human rights wars confused. Explicit lyrics warnings on CDs was a culture war issue; abortion/LGBTQ/equal rights are not “culture” they are human rights that one side wants to take away.

plaindavid.bsky.social•16 days ago

"You must wear every button or you can't march with us"
vs.
"People should be free to pursue their happiness - it's not just a good idea it's the law"

valentenya.bsky.social•16 days ago

In the climate space the petro sponsored right is unrelenting in framing hard science as “culture war”. And most journalists let it through when no one should be ceding a Planck length to these fuckers.

gabimccauley.bsky.social•16 days ago

I was just thinking about how to word this and you came up with it better than anything I could have, my friend.

picatinnyrailed.bsky.social•16 days ago

Hard agree!

nacl.sh•16 days ago

https://citationsneeded.medium.com/episode-157-how-the-culture-wars-label-obscures-and-trivializes-life-and-death-political-issues-60d1c1658d69

link.spacelawshitpost.me•16 days ago

Yes, exactly this.

nacl.sh•16 days ago

it's linguistic gerrymandering, you take some unrelated concepts and put them all in the same category, then judge the individual concepts through the stain of the whole category.

nacl.sh•16 days ago

ex: snickers dick vein, green m&m is unsexy now, and planned parenthood firebombings. that's one serious topic and two things that are shit that doesnt matter. if you put all those things into the same category, you make a brand new word for something that's 2/3rds shit that doesnt matter.

nacl.sh•16 days ago

this is the function of the "culture wars" label — to use a euphemism for something that could easily mean shit that doesnt matter to talk about shit that is actually a huge deal. just like election gerrymandering. it changes the locations counted to win a majority where it would normally be a loss.

kcclyburn.bsky.social•16 days ago

See also; DEI, which can mean "kinda cringey corporate meetings", "affirmative action" and "segregate the entire federal government and replace the bureaucracy with whites who align with white nationalism".

nacl.sh•16 days ago

words cant have concise meanings anymore, bc of woke

kcclyburn.bsky.social•16 days ago

DEI being a thing that was kind sort invented by white corporate America (with some input from BIPOC and LBGTQIA+ people) to shield them from lawsuits/accusations of racism that the rich owners and CEOs of these companies got super pissed about and needed to dismantle is so fascinating.

freedomforall.net•16 days ago

Every day, every moment, every interaction, every goddamn thing. Just never let it slip.

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