Culture generates sorting arenas for usually-but-not-always rhetorical conflict. As a concept, the “culture war” is, at best, a misspecification. The war is over something else.
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Replying to @suzywanalyst
I think its mostly about resources. Norms in specific contexts are just ephemeral arenas. To the winner goes portable authority and allegiances. (This is a hot take I’m working through.)
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My focus is on the first part — how do we decompose the motivations and information sources that get congealed in norms?
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Yes. And i think thats how the norms work as battlefronts — through salience. The two norms (as contexts) partition groups very differently!
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Yes that happened to me too. Engaging does provide oxygen to folks like him which may sustain the fuckery. But there is also clear, inplied harm, so ceding the space without compelling reasons not to starts to feel like cowardice or indifference
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