culture war

[ kuhl-cher wawr ]

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noun

a conflict or struggle for dominance between groups within a society or between societies, arising from their differing beliefs, practices, etc.:
a culture war over the right to own a gun; China’s culture war with the Western world.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1875–80; a loan translation of German Kulturkampf ( def ). The contemporary sense was first recorded in 1985–90 .

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Conference of Catholic Bishops, Gomez pursued culture war nonsense instead of actual issues.

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They can't win the culture war, but they're going to use these lawsuits to spit in the face of all the queer people who offend them just by existing.

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First of all, he appears to be obsessed with his Fox News culture war issues, particularly DEI, and spends an awful lot of time worrying about things like physical fitness rather than the big picture.

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Kinkade’s enormous 1990s-era success, which saw his work reproduced on everything from collectible plates to La-Z-Boy loungers, dovetailed with the period’s culture war against the sexualization of art.

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“Ever since the publication of my last book, which made an honest appraisal of the culture war, I’ve been somewhat non grata in certain literary circles,” Daum writes.

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