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"I think the biggest wool pulled over everyone's eyes by #rightwing #politicians is that liking #history and tradition by definition makes you socially conservative, because the left agenda is to destroy your culture and absorb you into some kind of beige multiculturalism that really just means no culture at all.
You'll see a lot of #people gobbling that up who think being American means owning a pick-up truck while not knowing what a dulcimer is, because they keep voting for people who throttle their own #education system, but likewise a bunch of left wing people who just grew up watching anyone into history with mistrust because this whole broad, general interest has been portrayed as people wanking over how great #society was in the 1940's, which in itself is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Now broadly speaking you can define culture and cultures in two ways, stuff that's been forged over thousands of years and resembles fancy arts and craft, and things like recounting important battles or what rich people call "#workplace culture", stuff that never affected ordinary people so much as was inflicted upon them and will never be looked upon fondly by anyone who lived through it.
You might notice that the first part is generally what people think of as culture and the second one just shit that happened.

Politicians will try and make you think that it's all one big lump but really it's just #political maneuvering. Most of these boring assholes don't know the first thing about their own culture, and they know most people don't either, they're just pretending European culture is white privileges and glorifying some long-dead assholes to give it all an air of sainthood, when really European culture, much like everywhere else, is tasty dishes and silly hats.
I don't think the left is against tasty dishes and silly hats."

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