Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
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Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#2Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country.
Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
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#3the class should have gone to the shooting range instead.
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#6Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc.
It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share.
Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator system, the belief in laissez-faire capitalism, the American "dream", the lack of history, or what.
Maybe European democracies are just as vulnerable to it, but I'm just not as exposed to their news as I am to American news and it's something completely different.
But, for example, in the UK we had Mary Whitehouse who tried this tactic but it was generally ineffective.
Be interested to know if anyone's seen any good social or political explanations of it?
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#8Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
The Simpsons were joking on exactly this censorship happening 30 years ago, so I don't think it's caused by social media.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#9Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc. It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share. Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator sy…
I think the two party system causes a lot of problems like this. Over time, a certain party has drifted towards an extreme that if the same happened in a European multiparty democracy, this party would have been replaced by one of the many similar, but sane parties.
Re: Principal resigns after Florida students shown Michelangelo statue
#10Thanks to news media and social media (often from foreign sources), Americans have fallen victim to culture war hullabaloo, which creates the perfect conditions for politicians to mismanage and loot a country. Speaking as a Nigerian where our equivalent to culture war is tribalism, I really hope no one else falls for the BS culture war politicians use to divide the population and mask their incessant failings.
I don't actually feel this is a particularly modern thing, this has happened before with 1920s prohibition, McCarthyism, the war on drugs, etc. It seems to be one of the weaknesses of American democracy, that a minority can enforce their will on a majority by sparking some sort of moral outrage that most voters don't actually share. Not sure what exactly causes it. If it's the electoral college system, the senator sy…
It's been around a long time, but a major contribution to the worsening of late is the US news media. When my family visited the us in the early 2000s we thought fox news was a parody at first. We could not believe it was being held up as news, when the bias, and outright misinformation was passed off as fact. This platform was used with great effect to seed mistrust in all media, and now it's completely polarised, with most folks refusing to look at certain media sources as they can't be trusted. Other countries regulate the media, news is much closer to fact. News media can and does get sanctioned for any wrong information and have to publicly retract, etc. There are solutions, but the US doesn't want them.
Now social media is here, it's made it a lot worse and more global, but the US had an opportunity in the 90s and 2000s to improve it's media and did not.