Dave Smith argues that the culture wars were not organic. They were engineered by elites as distractions to keep Americans arguing against each other instead of uniting on key economic issues against the elites.
I just finished watching "Can We Take a Joke: When Outrage and Comedy Collide" (2016). Awesome documentary for those who understand the importance of free speech and who are concerned about the future of comedy.
Eli Steele, writing at the Daily Mail:
When I learned that Boston's mayor Michelle Wu hosted a racially segregated holiday party for the city council's 'Electeds of Color,' I wondered: would I have been invited? After all, my father is black, but my skin looks white. The 'no whites' gathering was exposed this week after a city employee accidentally emailed invitations to Caucasian council members before hurriedly rescinding the offers....
[Above: Instagram photo published by the Office of Boston Mayor Wu]
It is incredible that nearly 60 years after the Civil Rights Act outlawed segregation in America — the country is once again grappling with this vile practice.
Today, in the name of social justice, K-12 educators divide students by race. Whites are told they are the oppressors while students of color are the oppressed. Teachers and administrative staff are separated into racial 'affinity groups'.
Our universities are no better — everything from freshmen orientation to housing decisions are determined according to immutable characteristics.Some colleges, including Harvard, hold 'special' celebrations during graduation week — whites and Jews excluded.
In great empires the people who live in the capital, and in the provinces remote from the scene of action, feel, many of them scarce any inconveniency from the war; but enjoy, at their ease, the amusement of reading in the newspapers the exploits of their own fleets and armies. To them this amusement compensates the small difference between the taxes which they pay on account of the war, and those which they had been accustomed to pay in time of peace. They are commonly dissatisfied with the return of peace, which puts an end to their amusement, and to a thousand visionary hopes of conquest and national glory, from a longer continuance of the war.
— Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book 5, Chapter 3
Why do I have almost no respect for corporate media? Here is a recent example of how they function. CNN is trying to dictate that you are not adult enough to hear Ramaswamy's opinions that conflict its preferred narratives and make up your own mind. This is despite the fact that everything Ramaswamy is working so hard to say is established uncontroverted fact. This is corporate media cancel culture at work, motivated by their obeisance to the federal security state. Such shameful behavior by the CNN host.
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1735306093322977484