Something about this tweet from Bill Bartholomew is more striking than it should be:

I’m not sure whether it’s better or worse if Bartholomew actually believes what he says or is just playing a role.  The absolutely most negative interpretation that actually makes sense about the people Bartholomew dislikes is that they don’t care about you, which leads me to conclude he’s got a bad case of projection.  He’s the one who hates, and it’s so ingrained that he thinks other people must act from the same emotion.

Note, in particular the phrase “using near-meaningless culture war nonsense.”  I remember when Bartholomew was pretending to be a fair broker on his podcast and interviewed Matt Allen.  Matt flipped the interview table and asked him if there was anybody he wouldn’t have on his show.  We now know that list is long, but at the time, I think he said something about a person who is strongly anti-trans.

In other words, the “culture war” issues are definitely not meaningless nonsense to him.  He just thinks it’s illegitimate to hold opposing views, and anybody who dares to stop the progress of his radical march must be doing so out of irrational hatred.