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Camille Paglia: The Modern Campus Cannot Comprehend Evil
Time Magazine ^ | 9-29-2014 | Camille Paglia

Posted on 09/29/2014 10:23:34 AM PDT by jonno

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To: Liberty Ship
exellant point, parents these days don't seem to understand that their children are learning from them constantly
21 posted on 09/29/2014 12:40:41 PM PDT by RichardMoore (There is only one issue- Life: dump TV and follow a plant based diet)
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I'll say this about Camille, she is one of the fastest talking individuals I've ever heard. I'd bet you she could recite The Gettysburg Address in twenty seconds or less.
22 posted on 09/29/2014 3:17:59 PM PDT by jmacusa (Liberalism defined: When mom and dad go away for the weekend and the kids are in charge.)
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The horrors and atrocities of history have been edited out of primary and secondary education except where they can be blamed on racism, sexism, and imperialism — toxins embedded in oppressive outside structures that must be smashed and remade. But the real problem resides in human nature, which religion as well as great art sees as eternally torn by a war between the forces of darkness and light.

Which is one reason the State wants to get rid of religion, so that people do not have the mental tools to grasp an alternative explanation for evil other than anti-capitalism.

23 posted on 09/29/2014 3:24:38 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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An article about the article (for those who don't want to click on a Time.com link) from the MailOnline:

In her provocative opinion piece, Paglia builds her argument on the premise that young, college-age women often become victims of sexual assault because they have a false sense of security and do not keep their guard up in public places.

Dismissing claims about an epidemic of sex assaults on campuses as 'wildly overblown,' the well-respected social critic writes that the true danger to female students is 'the ancient sex crime of abduction and murder.'

She goes so far as to say that colleges should stick to academics instead of lecturing students about sex assault, which in her mind is an exercise in futility.

Paglia essentially says that on a biological level, men are wild beasts driven by atavistic desires, and that our society has done women a great disservice by leading them to believe otherwise.

'Too many young middleclass women, raised far from the urban streets, seem to expect adult life to be an extension of their comfortable, overprotected homes,' Paglia says. 'But the world remains a wilderness. The price of women’s modern freedoms is personal responsibility for vigilance and self-defense.'

Paglia also takes a swipe at the American education system, accusing teachers and schoolbook authors of sanitizing history by removing any mention of ‘horrors and atrocities’ stemming from evil that it part and parcel of human nature.  



24 posted on 09/30/2014 9:43:54 AM PDT by Bratch
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