The Culture Wars, Then and Now

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Rush Limbaugh’s “fans” are outraged that professors say mean things about him

L.D. Burnett
5 min readFeb 18, 2021

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The rank hypocrisy of Rush Limbaugh fans complaining on social media and elsewhere because a large segment of the public (including yours truly) tweeted some variant of “#BIH Rush” is a sight to behold—not that any of them would know, for none of them has ever looked in a mirror.

Rush Limbaugh was a polarizing figure—deliberately so. He was racist and sexist and bigoted…

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L.D. Burnett

Writer and historian from / in California’s Great Central Valley. Book, “Western Civilization: The History of an American Idea,” under contract w/ UNC Press.