‘People are picking the dumbest fights’: the tortured history of America’s culture wars (www.theguardian.com)

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“The thing that the religious right did over and over and over again – they do it today; JD Vance is actually exceptionally good at this – is this idea that, ‘ You expressing your point of view oppresses me, you enjoying your civil rights oppresses me. Even though I’m the second most powerful man in the country, other people having their point of view is actually oppression against me.’ They were exceptionally good at that...”

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[-] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 5 points 5 days ago

This is maybe one of the worst aspects of the Obama presidency, how it gave rise to this notion that people have a right to be free from offense. Most people honestly think their opinions and identity are sacrosanct, and that it's their right to never have to cope with hearing anything they don't like.

And I really, really wish I knew how to make people care about anything that really matters so much as they care about this symbolic, stupid shit.

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