I’ve recently realized that when some folks rail against “whiteness,” what they really mean is modernism, which has nothing to do with race or skin color, but is a kind of mode of being which is hyper rational, Apollonian, linear, mechanical, and Artless.
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Replying to @cvaldary
That's a really good insight. Here in Louisiana, we associate those qualities not with whiteness, but with being a Yankee.
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Replying to @roddreher @cvaldary
Agreed, it's more a Yankee/WASP stereotype. I'm Italian, a culture that nobody would consider "hyper rational, Apollonian, linear, mechanical, and artless."
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Replying to @realchrisrufo @roddreher
Listen Chris there are entire periods within Italian epochs where there was a whole Apollonian phase *cough cough Rome* so let’s not get carried away here.
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