“culture plays a larger role than politics in determining social relations.” Interesting blog re my culture wars question. THREAD of quotes coming https://twitter.com/ADRobbler/status/1310158937669459968

“Culture is not neutral — it can validate and include people and it can exclude and erase people.”

“The far right has also attempted to introduce ideas and narratives into our common discussion and into what people consider to be common sense, with varying degrees of success.”

[certain] “words and ideas form a key part of contemporary far right ideology, and the more of them that are accepted and used in public common discourse, the further our culture tacks towards the far right and the closer the far right come to winning the culture war.”

“The far right have developed several tactics to insinuate these ideas and terms into mainstream culture in the 21st century, and they’ve unfortunately proved to be quite effective.”>>> I think this is key. It’s misguided to wave away these ideas as unappealing. They appeal.

“For Liberals, absolutely untrammelled free speech is essential to producing a good society and a good culture. Liberals see culture as a ‘marketplace of ideas’”

“The problem with this is that we are in a culture war, and not a debating club. The far right and the left both recognise this fact, but many Liberals still seem oblivious to it. Culture doesn’t work like a debating club...”

“The far right don’t care about Free Speech as a political principle but they are making appeals to Liberals’ commitment to Free Speech as a political tactic because it helps them to infect culture with far right ideas and language.”

“Every time the far right’s ideas or terminology are repeated, given air time, legitimated by Liberals on behalf of the far right the infection spreads throughout our culture.“

“our culture is produced by the sum total of our interactions with each other, and if people are constantly airing far right ideas then those ideas have been cemented as part of our culture“

Thanks to @ADRobbler for the blog that I’ve quoted from in this thread.

“ The far right aren’t trying to win an argument in the Oxford Union; they are trying to infect culture with their ideas.” absolutely this. Never forget. Stay alert.