As long as we don’t forget that many human rights issues have been mislabeled “culture wars” to detract from their importance. The first battle in the class war will ever be the battle for solidarity, for we cannot stand together unless we all stand equal.
this post was submitted on 17 Apr 2025
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Yeah I’m tired of people fighting for basic rights and access to information being said to be engaging in culture war
I read a comment from a far right poster saying: “We would’ve been fine living out our lives. But you democrats just keep pushing.”
And I can’t help but get furious. WHAT is “pushing”? Who is being “pushed out”?? These people have so many blinders on for every form of change in the world, and see everything as an attack on them personally.
They are suffering from the degrading material conditions of capitalism and attributing the progress of other groups as the cause. That's it for most of them. And that's being fed to them by Media all day long. It's not much more complicated than that.
Most aren't married to racist or xenophobic beliefs. Often times you don't need to even address those beliefs directly. It is much easier to direct their anger at their boss. Everyone has a boss that is fucking them over.
It's why I'm never gonna have a pointless conversation about trans rights with my coworker when he starts talking about "men in women's sports". I'm gonna say "yeah, I don't know about all that and I really don't care. I care more about what they're doing to labor rights. You know are boss can do x,y,z".
I DO care about trans rights. But he doesn't. I'm not trying to be his friend. I'm just trying to redirect his anger. That's really the best I can do.
I'm not saying we don't need to address existing structures of inequality. But that trying to first "change the mind of a racist" and only then redirect their anger into class solidarity is the wrong path. At least when you're just talking to some transphobic coworker.
The anger needs to be redirected first. It is significantly easier to address racism and xenophobia when they are no longer the scapegoat for the material problems all of the working class are facing.
Generation wars are just like fighting over astrological signs.
Damn Aries bought all the candy from the store leaving none for the rest of us.
It would be nice if we all realized that we out number the wealthy thousands to one.
I'm not gonna jump into the culture wars but I'm also not gonna leave behind my trans/poc brothers and sisters.
Some of the generation wars are heavily interrelated with the class war: like generational wealth. There is actual overlap sometimes, even though I otherwise mostly agree with this point.
Typical political meme with way too many words.
the blue side wants kids to have free school lunch
the red side wants minorities to be shipped to el salvador
it’s totally both sides the same!