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Culture War Roundup for the week of July 17, 2023

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I know that the “culture war” thread has long since morphed into the “general thread for society and current events”, but I think there should be some sort of restriction on what topics are allowed in top level posts. Otherwise there’s not much point in maintaining a separate thread.

This doesn’t even have a tenuous connection to the CW and would have been better off as its own separate thread.

Just to clarify, these kinds of posts are fine in the culture war thread. We have not created any explicit rule against these types of posts, and we have never enforced anything against them.

A minor history lesson:

The original culture war threads were just discussion threads where culture war topics were allowed rather than completely banned.

A bunch of rules have arisen over time to handle how culture war topics are handled and presented, but at no point were non-culture war topics banned, it's just that they defacto did not show up in the culture war threads because those topics were allowed to happen elsewhere in the community.

Basically the culture war thread was set up as fence to keep culture war topics in rather than to keep other topics out.

While this is a little harsh, I agree that this would be better as a thread on its own to discuss it in more depth. Maybe it could be moved to be a separate thread, as there's a lot to get into and it needs the room for comments distinct from the rest of the Culture War stuff?

I’d like to see an Insight Porn Tuesdays thread, where we explain interesting and illuminating things. This is the kind of thing which would be perfect for it. They could be tangential or even “logistical” to the culture war (Vivek R. (R) is a monotheist Hindu, which makes this timely).

If he had just added two sentences at the end about how white liberals tend to find Hinduism attractive for x and y reason it would be fine. He even mentioned that in the beginning.

The CW angle is clear in my mind, I think it just needs a tad extra exposition at the end. That being said it’s already far higher quality and more interesting than most of the other posts in the last month.

The CW thread has long had posts that have little connection to the "culture war" but are nonetheless interesting. I think it's fine. The distinction between the CW thread and toplevel posts comes from /r/ssc, where culture war posts were quarantined (iirc), but after all the splits the main thing we care about is the CW thread so there's no need to enforce any separation.

I don't disagree that this isn't really culture war, but I want OP to know that even it is decided that this isn't the right place for this post, I found his post interesting and educational and look forward to reading more, whether in this thread or elsewhere.

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