culture war

Culture war is when people argue about “values” stuff like race, gender, religion, education, and free speech, but they frame it like it is a team sport and everybody is enemies. It is basically politics, but with moral scoreboard rules, so it feels less like debate and more like a turf war over who gets to decide what is “right.” The internet loves it because it turns complex human problems into clean little villains and heroes, which is fun for the brain and awful for