What decade played the biggest role in creating today's "culture wars"?

[darklordoftech]

I've heard all of the above argued.

[HisGrace]

The root of all this stuff is in the social changes of the 60's, so it's what I voted for. It ramped up in intensity in the 2010's so that is the second choice.

[OSR stands with Israel]

The root of today's culture war lies in the 1960s but it really only became ranched up during the 2000s

[Beet]

- The 60s introduced the culture wars, however by the 70s it seemed to have fizzled out

- The 80s reintroduced them, thanks to the religious right, but by the 90s it seemed to die down

- In the 10s, not only did the most extreme manifestations of it suddenly become mainstream, but new ethnic nationalism arose. The 10s is far worse than anything that came before.

[darklordoftech]

Surprised by the lack of votes for the 1990s.

[Sumner 1868]

The 1970s. Nothing even comes close. Roe, extreme gay activism, the peak of second-wave feminism and black separatism, white nationalists moving to the Rockies, divorce expansion, television content relaxation, New Age movements, gentrification, evangelicalism, hardcore environmentalists campaigning against nuclear power, more segregated music scenes, nihilism in popular culture, neoliberalism replacing the Keynesian postwar consensus, disdain of public institutions from Watergate, and that's just the stuff at the top of my head.

[Del Tachi]

The 1970s. Nothing even comes close. Roe, extreme gay activism, the peak of second-wave feminism and black separatism, white nationalists moving to the Rockies, divorce expansion, television content relaxation, New Age movements, gentrification, evangelicalism, hardcore environmentalists campaigning against nuclear power, more segregated music scenes, nihilism in popular culture, neoliberalism replacing the Keynesian postwar consensus, disdain of public institutions from Watergate, and that's just the stuff at the top of my head.

This.

[Okay, maybe Mike Johnson is a competent parliamentarian.]

Tara makes a compelling case for the 1970s, but the 1960s are the decade that every decade from the 70s onward has been relitigating.

The 2010s' culture wars have been worse than any since at least the turn of the twentieth century, probably longer. At least in the 60s and 70s some of the radicals had hope.

[Higgins]

Most of the social changes attributed to the 60s, actually happened in the 70s:

Women's Lib, Gay Rights. Hippies really were only confined to specific cities and such until the 70s. The true birth of drug busting only really began in the 70s (and exploded in the 80s). The major culture war event of the 60s was African American civil rights. Most of what we associate with the "60s" really happened from 1968 through 1980.

[dw93]

The 60s and 70s is where the culture war's roots are. The war officially started in the 80's, carried on through the 90's and 2000's, and came to a head in the 2010's.

[Indy Texas]

The 1970s. Nothing even comes close. Roe, extreme gay activism, the peak of second-wave feminism and black separatism, white nationalists moving to the Rockies, divorce expansion, television content relaxation, New Age movements, gentrification, evangelicalism, hardcore environmentalists campaigning against nuclear power, more segregated music scenes, nihilism in popular culture, neoliberalism replacing the Keynesian postwar consensus, disdain of public institutions from Watergate, and that's just the stuff at the top of my head.

Most of what we regard "the '60s" as, as a cultural era, happened in the 1970s.

This is in part because most of what we associate with "the '50s" persisted until about 1967 or so.

[RINO Tom]

The 1970s. Nothing even comes close. Roe, extreme gay activism, the peak of second-wave feminism and black separatism, white nationalists moving to the Rockies, divorce expansion, television content relaxation, New Age movements, gentrification, evangelicalism, hardcore environmentalists campaigning against nuclear power, more segregated music scenes, nihilism in popular culture, neoliberalism replacing the Keynesian postwar consensus, disdain of public institutions from Watergate, and that's just the stuff at the top of my head.

Most of what we regard "the '60s" as, as a cultural era, happened in the 1970s.

This is in part because most of what we associate with "the '50s" persisted until about 1967 or so.

See: Mad Men starting around 1960, IIRC, and being thought of as a "'50s show" by many.

[Senator Incitatus]

The 1960s laid the groundwork and the 1970s saw the first skirmishes.