The culture war is far older than that. It really goes back to Antonio Grahmsci, an Italian Marxist who realized the way to influence society was through its culture. His writings heavily inspired the Frankfurt School of Intellectuals with the real damage was legitimizing Herbert Marcuse. That's the rat bastard whose got this repressive tolerance shit rolling. That's why Right Wing death tolls gets so much emphasis and left wing death tolls don't' really get a peep.
Speaking of that, does Cypher acknowledge the Holodomor or the Khymer Rogue Killing Fields?