CULTURE WAR Definition & Meaning

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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�y��vlog 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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It struck him as “another culture war issue pitting red versus blue” amid a broader flurry of “partisan targeting” by the Trump administration of liberal jurisdictions and groups.

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The answer — as pointed jokes at the president’s expense volleyed across the historic room, now a front line of the culture war — was an unequivocal yes.

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If you'll recall it was the cause celebre of the 2021 Virginia governor's race which had all the DC tongues wagging about the resurgence of the right-wing culture war.

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Vouchers got tied up in the culture war and became a litmus test for which side of the culture war a legislator stands on.

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But now it becomes the latest Disney redo to go through the culture war buzzsaw.

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