I say to people "culture war bullshit doesn't matter" and what i mean when i say that is that some culture wars are indeed totally meaningless, like CRT, but for others - usually the big ones like LGBT rights, women's liberation, abortion, BLM, etc - on these one side is definitively the correct line and there is zero need for any further "debate".
This shouldn't be difficult for so-called "communists" to understand.
I think what he meant was that the culture war over crt is meaningless in that the people most engaged have no idea what it is they are opposing. But that's being charitable and he should fix his wording because it is an important issue.
Its this, the other example i thought of later was the war over "cancel culture". Both matter to the same extent.
People who whine about "CRT" cast a net so wide literally any modern history on race inthe USA counts as "critical race theory". Just like how"cancel culture" is just people with actual power and influence whinging about people yelling at them on Twitter for their dogshit takes
All of those are materially important questions, but they're relegated to the "culture war" by virtue of the fact that 90% of movement on them is purely symbolic, and doesn't actually change the status quo. They're presented as critical sites of conflict, but without a revolutionary movement of the working class, they're largely closed and settled, with no way for us to actually effect them.
I say to people "culture war bullshit doesn't matter" and what i mean when i say that is that some culture wars are indeed totally meaningless, like CRT, but for others - usually the big ones like LGBT rights, women's liberation, abortion, BLM, etc - on these one side is definitively the correct line and there is zero need for any further "debate".
This shouldn't be difficult for so-called "communists" to understand.
The anti-CRT agenda is still a submarine for gaslighting black rights activists and torpedoing white supremacy into schools.
okay dude.
I think what he meant was that the culture war over crt is meaningless in that the people most engaged have no idea what it is they are opposing. But that's being charitable and he should fix his wording because it is an important issue.
You don't need to know what you're doing to create political groundswell for someone who does.
that's definitely true.
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more that things won;t be fized either way by CRT, as americans have proven we will not learn anything even when explicitly taught.
Its this, the other example i thought of later was the war over "cancel culture". Both matter to the same extent.
People who whine about "CRT" cast a net so wide literally any modern history on race inthe USA counts as "critical race theory". Just like how"cancel culture" is just people with actual power and influence whinging about people yelling at them on Twitter for their dogshit takes
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Judging by how many cars I've seen with both BLM and thin blue line on them, yes, absolutely
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America breaks my brain.
All of those are materially important questions, but they're relegated to the "culture war" by virtue of the fact that 90% of movement on them is purely symbolic, and doesn't actually change the status quo. They're presented as critical sites of conflict, but without a revolutionary movement of the working class, they're largely closed and settled, with no way for us to actually effect them.