Michael E Johnson
Banned
From: Dale (Shadow6865@aol.com)
Subject: AH Challenge: Culture Wars Get Violent
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Date: 2003-12-15 18:07:06 PST
NOTE: Please, please, please with sugar on top let's not make this
into a Flame War.
In OTL, The "Culture Wars" is a termed used to describe the tensions
between liberals and conservatives as they fight to see where America
well head in the future. It covers pretty much every single cultural
skirmish. Affirmtive Action, Abortion, the Enviroment, Gay Rights,
School Prayer, Teaching Evolution, Corporal Punishment, How Much Sex
and Violence is in Popular Culture, etc and etc. Also in OTL, the
"culture wars" are very heated but generally non-violent. There are
anti-abortion/pro-life terrorists and pro-eviromental terrorists but
in general the culture wars are fought in the media, the ballot box
and in the courts.
What POD is necessary to make the culture wars more hostile and
violent. I don't just mean open confrotations that end in riots.
Imagine if each side in the culture wars, had a "cell" structure that
engaged in other methods of intimadition: assisnation, explosions,
blackmail, etc. Try to include non-violent crimes like how could
computer hacking and fraud be used as effective weapons? Think
pre-Nazi Germany which almost every political group had its own
paramilitary outfit which often engaged in street brawls and other
methods of violence.
Subject: AH Challenge: Culture Wars Get Violent
View this article only
Newsgroups: soc.history.what-if
Date: 2003-12-15 18:07:06 PST
NOTE: Please, please, please with sugar on top let's not make this
into a Flame War.
In OTL, The "Culture Wars" is a termed used to describe the tensions
between liberals and conservatives as they fight to see where America
well head in the future. It covers pretty much every single cultural
skirmish. Affirmtive Action, Abortion, the Enviroment, Gay Rights,
School Prayer, Teaching Evolution, Corporal Punishment, How Much Sex
and Violence is in Popular Culture, etc and etc. Also in OTL, the
"culture wars" are very heated but generally non-violent. There are
anti-abortion/pro-life terrorists and pro-eviromental terrorists but
in general the culture wars are fought in the media, the ballot box
and in the courts.
What POD is necessary to make the culture wars more hostile and
violent. I don't just mean open confrotations that end in riots.
Imagine if each side in the culture wars, had a "cell" structure that
engaged in other methods of intimadition: assisnation, explosions,
blackmail, etc. Try to include non-violent crimes like how could
computer hacking and fraud be used as effective weapons? Think
pre-Nazi Germany which almost every political group had its own
paramilitary outfit which often engaged in street brawls and other
methods of violence.