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From the Daily Caller:
- The Anus Monologues
From the inimitable Ann Coulter: Unable to comment on the "Duck Dynasty" controversy last week due to my hectic Kwanzaa schedule, I am able to sweep in at the end and comment on the commentary. Anyone who utters the mind-numbingly obvious...
- Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense Of Masculine Virtues
From the Wall St. Journal: 'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In...
- Camille Paglia On The Clash Of Civilizations
21st Century Noir One of the world's most important, and reasonable, feminists speaks out on the threat of Islam. In FrontPage Robert Spencer discusses why Camille Paglia may soon feel the ire of the politically correct establishment:Camille...
- Whither The Arts?
From Ed Driscoll at PJM: At Ricochet, Dave Carter links to Camille Paglia’s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the decline of the art worldwith a reminder of the wonders of the 700-year old Cologne Cathedral and writes:To...
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What Ever Happened to Camille Paglia?Once known as "America's foremost cultural critic," Paglia's literary output has dropped precipitously while she has failed to engage on the number one women's issue in the world: Islam's treatment...
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Camille Paglia: Duck Dynasty uproar ‘utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist’
From the Daily Caller:
The suspension of Phil Robertson from A&E’s Duck Dynasty is outrageous in a nation that values freedom, according to social critic and openly gay, dissident feminist Camille Paglia.
“I speak with authority here, because I was openly gay before the ‘Stonewall rebellion,’ when it cost you something to be so. And I personally feel as a libertarian that people have the right to free thought and free speech,”
Paglia, a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, said on Laura Ingraham’s radio show Thursday.
“In a democratic country, people have the right to be homophobic as well as they have the right to support homosexuality — as I one hundred percent do. If people are basing their views against gays on the Bible, again they have a right of religious freedom there,” she added.
“To express yourself in a magazine in an interview — this is the level of punitive PC, utterly fascist, utterly Stalinist, OK, that my liberal colleagues in the Democratic Party and on college campuses have supported and promoted over the last several decades,” Paglia said.
“This is the whole legacy of free speech 1960’s that have been lost by my own party.” Paglia went on to point out that while she is an atheist she respects religion and has been frustrated by the intolerance of gay activists. “I think that this intolerance by gay activists toward the full spectrum of human beliefs is a sign of immaturity, juvenility,” Paglia said.
“This is not the mark of a true intellectual life. This is why there is no cultural life now in the U.S. Why nothing is of interest coming from the major media in terms of cultural criticism. Why the graduates of the Ivy League with their A, A, A+ grades are complete cultural illiterates, etc. is because they are not being educated in any way to give respect to opposing view points.”
“There is a dialogue going on human civilization, for heaven sakes. It’s not just this monologue coming from fanatics who have displaced the religious beliefs of their parents into a political movement,” she added. “And that is what happened to feminism, and that is what happened to gay activism, a fanaticism.”
- The Anus Monologues
From the inimitable Ann Coulter: Unable to comment on the "Duck Dynasty" controversy last week due to my hectic Kwanzaa schedule, I am able to sweep in at the end and comment on the commentary. Anyone who utters the mind-numbingly obvious...
- Camille Paglia: A Feminist Defense Of Masculine Virtues
From the Wall St. Journal: 'What you're seeing is how a civilization commits suicide," says Camille Paglia. This self-described "notorious Amazon feminist" isn't telling anyone to Lean In...
- Camille Paglia On The Clash Of Civilizations
21st Century Noir One of the world's most important, and reasonable, feminists speaks out on the threat of Islam. In FrontPage Robert Spencer discusses why Camille Paglia may soon feel the ire of the politically correct establishment:Camille...
- Whither The Arts?
From Ed Driscoll at PJM: At Ricochet, Dave Carter links to Camille Paglia’s essay in the Wall Street Journal on the decline of the art worldwith a reminder of the wonders of the 700-year old Cologne Cathedral and writes:To...
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What Ever Happened to Camille Paglia?Once known as "America's foremost cultural critic," Paglia's literary output has dropped precipitously while she has failed to engage on the number one women's issue in the world: Islam's treatment...