Culture war
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A culture war is a form of cultural conflict between different social groups who struggle to politically impose their own ideology upon mainstream society, or upon the other. In political usage, cultu
Members of the American Indian Movement toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on June 10, 2020.
Pat Buchanan in 2008
(from right to left) 43rd President George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, and Paul Wolfowitz were prominent neoconservatives of the 2000s.
The J. E. B. Stuart Monument, defaced during protests in Richmond, Virginia, was removed on July 7, 2020.
Kulturkampf
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The Kulturkampf was the seven-year political conflict between the Catholic Church in Germany led by Pope Pius IX and the Kingdom of Prussia, led by Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, as well as other Germa
Culture war
…issues that are based on abstract arguments about values, morality, and lifestyle meant to provoke political cleavage in a multicultural society. The Kulturkampf (German pronunciation: ; lit. 'Cultural Struggle') was the seven-year political conflict (1871–1878) between the Catholic Church in Germany led by Pope…
Pope Pius IX, c. 1878
Anti-Catholic caricature in the Munich Leuchtkugeln, 1848. A warning not to rejoice yet. The Catholic cleric as a fox and blind passenger on the wagon of progress, in order to later reverse the course of history.
Prussian Minister of Education Adalbert Falk, 1872
Otto von Bismarck, c. 1875