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Marxism catching strays in the intro of a random art history book (thelemmy.club)
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Bonus nonsense:

Revenge of the Sith glazing

Glittering Images by Camille Paglia

I stopped reading after this horrendous introduction. I would describe the prose as Redditor adjacent. The author identifies as a civil rights era liberal and atheist, while condemning black art and Piss Christ. There were some pretty pictures in the book tho. I don't know who this author lady is/was but she sucks. 2/10

E: if you look this lady up, as many in the comments have done already, turns out she's a racist, transphobic pedophile. classic anticommunist

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[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 42 points 1 day ago

This Camille Paglia? who calls other feminist contemporaries Stalinists?

Yep, confirmed

[-] supafuzz@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camille_Paglia#Child_sexuality yikes, that is not a subheader you ever want to see on a wikipedia page

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 44 points 1 day ago

lmao holy christ. usually you only see this kind of blatant support for CSA on 4chan.

"I have repeatedly protested the lynch-mob hysteria that dogs the issue of man-boy love. In Sexual Personae, I argued that male pedophilia is intricately intertwined with the cardinal moments of Western civilization."

"actually child abuse is the lynchpin of western civilization!"

freeman-true but imagine thinking that's a good thing, my god

[-] Sasuke@hexbear.net 35 points 1 day ago

Paglia jokingly commented in an interview in 1992: "In the case of Sinéad O'Connor, child abuse was justified". This was her response to the singer's action on Saturday Night Live, where she tore up a picture of the pope in protest of the unfolding child sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church

what-the-hell

In 1993, Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA, a pederasty and pedophilia advocacy organization.

what-the-hell

In 1994, Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to 14. She noted in a 1995 interview with pro-pedophile activist Bill Andriette, "I fail to see what is wrong with erotic fondling with any age."

what-the-hell

[-] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 31 points 1 day ago

In 1993, Paglia signed a manifesto supporting NAMBLA

Lmfao how did anyone let this person near a pen. Let alone actually be published or listened to at all...

[-] Rom@hexbear.net 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

cw pedo shit

In 1994, Paglia supported lowering the legal age of consent to 14. She noted in a 1995 interview with pro-pedophile activist Bill Andriette, "I fail to see what is wrong with erotic fondling with any age."

yikes-1yikes-2yikes-2yikes-3

[-] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

Transphobia, justifying SA, general shittiness

Paglia has long rejected the scientific consensus on global warming
She said that the "cold biological truth is that sex changes are impossible" and that she rejects "state-sponsored coercion to call someone a 'woman' or a 'man' simply on the basis of his or her subjective feeling about it.
Paglia is critical of the influence many postwar French writers have had on the humanities, claiming that universities are in the "thrall" of French post-structuralists; that in the works of Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault, she never once found a sentence that interested her
Paglia criticized Bill Clinton for not resigning after the Monica Lewinsky scandal, which she says "paralyzed the government for two years, leading directly to our blindsiding by 9/11."
"In the case of Sinéad O'Connor, child abuse was justified". This was her response to the singer's action on Saturday Night Live, where she tore up a picture of the pope in protest of the unfolding child sexual abuse scandal surrounding the Catholic Church.

Lotta bangers in here, but my favorite has to be "Bill Clinton did 9/11"

[-] Azarova@hexbear.net 25 points 1 day ago

This Camille Paglia?

what-the-hell even skimming that was a wild ride holy moly

[-] chgxvjh@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

Someone should show her piefed

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