Kulturkampf

[Uncle]

the trouble is the baggage that the word carries in a political context, and using it as part of your unbiased professional news headline

calling it a weapon sort of implies that those it's being used against should erect a defense, like tacit encouragement that colleges should include some new language in their rules about evaluating on a case-by-case basis so they don't have to fire people for plagiarism anymore, since that's the new du jour weapon that we must stop at all costs