I'm really tired of hearing the press talk about 'culture wars'.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

I'm really tired of hearing the press talk about 'culture wars'.

Because it never has anything to do with culture.

It's about race. It's always about race.

[patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social]

@Remittancegirl and sexual identity...

[jeanniewarner@wandering.shop]

@Remittancegirl Can I throw class in here too? Mostly from research I did about when the UK created public education, and the main Tory objection was that lower classes would get above themselves.

[alessandro@mstdn.ca]

@patrick_h_lauke

and religion, and language, and class to a certain extent

@Remittancegirl

[stompyrobot@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@Remittancegirl it's also about patriarchy! Which is a kind of culture?

[apostateenglishman@mastodon.world]

@Remittancegirl Race, class, and patriarchy - under which we can file anti-trans and anti-queer rhetoric and policies as sub-categories, because non-cishet sexual and gender identities threaten the patriarchal order.

[vegard_berget@tutoteket.no]

@Remittancegirl tbf, sometimes it's gender or sexuality as well

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

@patrick_h_lauke They are so insane, that to them, non-heterosexuality is like another country, another species. It might as well be another race.

[remittancegirl@mstdn.social]

And when you respond with... well, what about sexual orientation or language or religion, or class....

I do hope you will listen to what I have to say to you about the way they think: it might as well be race - because to them, you are another species. A lesser species.

For THEM it is always about race.

[evelinesulman@akademienl.social]

@Remittancegirl it is indeed about otherness. It is all xenophobia.