Kyle Wagner, “The Future Of The Culture Wars Is Here, And It's Gamergate”

Co-opting the language and posture of grievance is how members of a privileged class express their belief that the way they live shouldn't have to change, that their opponents are hypocrites and perhaps even the real oppressors.

They see themselves as the ones holding true to the ideals in which their opponents only profess to believe.

All culture wars are at bottom about the same thing: the desperate efforts of the privileged, in an ever-pluralizing America, to cling by their nails to the perquisites of what they'd thought was once their exclusive domain.