wombat_socho

What the hell? Recognizably nerdy archetypes predate the rise of modern hip-hop culture by decades, as even a casual analysis of pop culture since the end of WWII demonstrates. And what does geek culture have to do with "whiteness", anyway, aside from not generally partaking of inner-city-influenced versions of cool? The most prominent exponents of "white culture" in the past (i.e. Rudyard Kipling and his crowd) weren't exactly geeky.

It's depressing to see this coming out of a linguistics department, too; despite the likes of Noam Chomsky, I usually think of linguistics as one of the few fields in the humanities that still tends to make falsifiable predictions based on empirical evidence.