‘Culture wars’ are fought by tiny minority – UK study
Yes. The culture war is to a great extent a US import. The US is extremely polarised, possibly uniquely so for a country with a single national language and mostly-shared ethnic background (compare Belgium, which is highly polarised but along language lines). The UK has its own natural fragmentation lines (north&#x2F;south, class system, four nations, catholic&#x2F;protestant) but those are not the lines on which the culture war is run.<p>While there has been incursion of talk radio (LBC&#x2F;Farage), there is no counterpart to the hyper-polarised TV of Fox News yet. Sky News is comparatively normal. The right-wing disinformation comes in via the press and various &quot;client journalists&quot; who repeat things they&#x27;ve heard from &quot;Downing street sources&quot; who they refuse to hold accountable.<p>&gt; It found that most voters balanced competing political concerns and ideas. Its polling found that 73% believe hate speech is a problem, while 72% believe political correctness is an issue. Some 60% believe many are too sensitive about race, but 60% also recognise issues around “white privilege”.<p>This is just the combination of leading questions and people responding to words without actually thinking about the underlying concepts.<p>See, always, Yes Minister: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA</a>