The nastiness of culture wars

[[https://theconversation.com/life-during-the-culture-wars-44537 a very interesting essay by Australian, Russell Blackford, on what he sees as the loss of civility in political discussions. A key illustration of what he says, and one that I think we would do well to remember on Gransnet sometimes, is that someone with whom one violently disagrees might still be, say, 40% right.