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In these day of masks, why worry about beards?
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
My friend was telling me the other day that there is a theory about why, if and when men grow beards.
We sipped our lattes and noticed that EVERY OTHER White man on the street was sporting a beard, some long, some short. Some white and shaggy. Some dark and trimmed. Many were looooong and unkempt.
There is no reliable explanation, of course, only theories?
Maybe there is a cultural history here (not necessarily an anthropological pattern), but some “type” of western look, a public statement? Maybe, a movement? We’re tough!

“I hate slavery because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself.
I hate it because it forces so many really good men amongst ourselves into an open war with the very
fundamental principles of civil liberty.”
What does his have to do with growing a beard?
I don’t know, except, as my historian suggests: these words are not the words of a racist.
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