Culture Wars Era - is it moving into its final phase?

[David Horn]

(01-23-2017, 12:09 PM)The Wonkette Wrote:

(01-18-2017, 12:08 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(01-17-2017, 11:55 AM)flbones too Wrote: I hope so. Millennials and Xers seem pretty solid for the most part. It seems to be boomers who fight the most over social issues. With the others, they may not necessary agree with something but believe that you should have the right to do something.

This is both true and not surprising.  Boomers came of age during the social upheavals of the 60s and 70s.  Racism, sexism, and the beginnings of the social opening all started in earnest during that period.  So did drugs and just being free. 

Of course the fight continues. 

I don't suppose you meant to say that racism and sexism started during the 60s and 70s, do you? I would guess that Frederick Douglass and Susan B Anthony would beg to disagree. 

I meant the modern movements against those problems, but certainly not the initial ones.  I had young teachers in my high school who were Freedom Riders, which is pretty early in that cycle.  It was easy to be idealistic.  We had idealists all around us.