1. @AlyssaRosenberg has a long, protein-rich essay on the shifting terrain of the culture wars:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/act-four/wp/2014/10/08/the-culture-wars-are-back-and-this-time-everyone-can-win/ … a few thoughts.
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2. Lots of meat in essay but broadly Rosenberg sees shift from 1980s/1990s battles over decency to contemporary proliferation of identities
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3. Contemporary proliferation of identities is most evident in sexual realm: from gay rights to LGBTQ. But same tendency pervades culture
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4. To take non-sexual example: on the right we see fissure of Reagan coalition into libertarians, social conservatives, anti-war faction
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5. Twitter itself is a huge playground of identity fission, where ever more distinct group formations seem to mushroom every time you look
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6. So I think
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7. Not so much in disagreement with Rosenberg but perhaps to augment her argument, a broader historical frame might help.
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8. I'd say since Civil War there has been a tension between Consensus America and Pluralist America.
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9. Obviously after Civil War, there was need for national unity -- and as per Benedict Anderson involves inventing imaginary nation.
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10. Reconstruction was noble but failed (or sabotaged) attempt to create a Consensus America based on Civil Rights.
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11. With failure of Reconstruction (or counterrevolution against it), new Consensus America emerged based on different ideal:white supremacy
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12. But even in White Supremest America pluralist resistance emerged both from Black culture and also surging immigrant communities.
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13. Theodore Roosevelt's melting-pot "Americanism" was attempt to forge new consensus that accommodated immigrants.
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