Edmund White - America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the id...

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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.

Edmund White

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Amerika lebt von links und rechts von Identitätspolitik. Aber Frankreich ist gegen die Idee. Seit der Revolution haben die Franzosen die Idee des Universalismus eingeführt. Wir alle müssen als abstrakte Individuen vor dem Gesetz gleich sein, und das erstreckt sich auch auf die Künste.

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