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Episode 157: How the "Culture War" Label Is Used to Trivialize Life-and-Death Economic Issues

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Culture Wark - A German Term for Culture Struggle

The term began making the rounds in news media in 19 90 as neocons responded to actual cultural products, things like film, television and art. In the mitilate eighties, the national endowment for the arts, the n e a, issued grants to multiple institutional arts programes. Part of these grants went toward funding artists andre sorano and robert maplethorpe,. both of whom produce imagery deemed obscene by lawmakerslike senators jesse helms and alphonse demado. As well as the fundamentalist american family association, the a f a.

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