The cultural battle of the right. Cartoon of 02/02/2025 in CTXT
Translation of the cartoon: On the bullets of the drum it reads: Hoaxes and on the pistol butt: Heat
The ambiguous 'cultural battle' is nothing new, but it comes and goes and has been reactivated, just tell the Argentines. The wig, during the closing of the far-right meeting at the Conference for Conservative Action (CPAC) in Buenos Aires, warned that it is necessary to "stop the left-wingers" so that "they don't get in anywhere".
Javier Milei, that generator of reactionary slogans with no other thread of argument than the provocation of the intellectual wardrobe, invited his followers to fight against socialism in order to strip it of its supposed supremacy in the cultural battle by which "they managed to impose the agenda of political correctness".
In its rhetoric, the very generic "agenda" and "political correctness" mean the same thing. Moreover, it hides a discourse that tries to convince that everything established is part of a twisted, evil, global plan.
For some years now, we have seen a significant increase in people calling themselves"politically incorrect" as a "revolutionary" subterfuge for the lifelong fascist, sexist, racist, homophobe and so on. A proud scoundrel who aspires to make incorrectness a virtue rather than a mistake.
Among them there are an astonishing number of backward-looking stubborn people who try to disguise their hatred of democracy by peddling a mixture of technocracy and collegial meritocracy.
Here, where we are experts in copying outside "trends" like blind parrots, many have embraced the worst of each country's most sociopathic neoliberal "conservatism" to offer us their own redneck version of "the cultural battle". A cheap unofficial franchise, an imitation with Francoist trappings that they want to present to us as something modern based on outdated memes and crappy images and videos generated with the free version of the most bizarre AI while those who cut the real cods are getting the short end of the stick.
