Well known feminist author, Camille Paglia, was interviewed recently. She is most certainly a woman of the Left but isn’t happy with how the collective Leftist mind has been hijacked:
Historically, talk radio arose via Rush Limbaugh in the early 1990s precisely because of this stranglehold by liberal discourse. For heaven’s sake, I was a Democrat who had just voted for Jesse Jackson in the 1988 primary, but I had to fight like mad in the early 1990s to get my views heard. The resistance of liberals in the media to new ideas was enormous. Liberals think of themselves as very open-minded, but that’s simply not true! Liberalism has sadly become a knee-jerk ideology, with people barricaded in their comfortable little cells. They think that their views are the only rational ones, and everyone else is not only evil but financed by the Koch brothers. It’s so simplistic!
There is much to read but it’s well worth it. Pass it on to your friends on the Left. Most will likely be too close minded to hear what she’s saying but hopefully it’ll crack open a few minds, if only a little.
h/t Lev
Has anyone noted how the left & far-left are attacking her like crazy.
Camille Paglia has committed an unpardonable sin; she spoke out against the ideological abortion cartel:
“Now let me give you a recent example of the persisting insularity of liberal thought in the media. When the first secret Planned Parenthood video was released in mid-July, anyone who looks only at liberal media was kept totally in the dark about it, even after the second video was released. But the videos were being run nonstop all over conservative talk shows on radio and television. It was a huge and disturbing story, but there was total silence in the liberal media. That kind of censorship was shockingly unprofessional. The liberal major media were trying to bury the story by ignoring it. Now I am a former member of Planned Parenthood and a strong supporter of unconstrained reproductive rights. But I was horrified and disgusted by those videos and immediately felt there were serious breaches of medical ethics in the conduct of Planned Parenthood officials. But here’s my point: it is everyone’s obligation, whatever your political views, to look at both liberal and conservative news sources every single day. You need a full range of viewpoints to understand what is going on in the world.”
Here are your “Planned Barrenhood” folks in action which get the Dr Mengele award for inhuman debasement.
Planned Parenthood VP Says Fetuses May Come Out Intact, Agrees Payments Specific to the Specimen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWQuZMvcFA8
The sale or purchase of human fetal tissue is a federal felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison or a fine of up to $500,000 (42 U.S.C. 289g-2). Federal law also requires that no alteration in the timing or method of abortion be done for the purposes of fetal tissue collection (42 U.S.C. 289g-1).
#PPSellsBabyParts PLANNED PARENTHOOD VP SAYS FETUSES MAY COME OUT INTACT, AGREES PAYMENTS SPECIFIC TO THE SPECIMEN
Planned Parenthood Rocky Mountains VP & Medical Director Savita Ginde Discusses Contract Details, Aborted Body Parts Pricing, and How to Not “Get Caught”
That is why the left will go full apoplectic on Camille and anyone else who go after the cartel.
Cheers
Hans Rupprecht, Commander in Chief
1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group ‘True North’
“…snippy, prim, smug bourgeois armchair leftism…”
She is definitely at risk of being tossed from the clubhouse.
What does she mean by hijacked? The left has always been like it is today.
Part One of her interview is also very good:
Now we have people emerging with Ivy League degrees who have no idea how little they know about history or literature. Their minds are shockingly untrained. They’ve been treated as fragile emotional beings throughout their schooling.
http://www.salon.com/2015/07/28/camille_paglia_how_bill_clinton_is_like_bill_cosby/
“They think that their views are the only rational ones, and everyone else is not only evil but financed by the Koch brothers. It’s so simplistic!”
Simplistic??? Well, I never! How dare she equate simplistic and simpletons! Oh wait.
I have a lot of respect for Camille Paglia, and always make a point of reading her work when I see it. She is a rare specimen among the left: a sensible thinker who can make her argument coherently.
Like Don Rickles, Camille Paglia has a shtick that she’s been working for years.
Around 1992, on Politically Incorrect
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-chbRF8z-c
2015, interview with Nick Gillespie of Reason
http://reason.com/reasontv/2015/03/19/everythings-amazing-and-camille-paglia-i#.ld1tbt:8y38
Anyone who wades through both interviews will notice it’s the same act. Included are the same observations of the dogmatism of the mainstream left, painting herself, as always, as the iconoclastic heroine.
This surfaced at Ace of Spades too, I can only shrug why anybody who describes themselves as a conservative should be enthused at her latest repetition.
Describing Matt Drudge as a tabloid auteur was kinda neat.
Planned Parenthood sells the parts of murdered babies no one says a thing some shoots a lion and everyone wants them drawn and quartred Stupid Animal Rights Freakos
I think she recognizes total “chaos” when she sees all the brain dead leadership. They have no idea where they are going, or why, just that they are easily herded & rushing to dark places!
I agree with her that the 60’s where Americans changing America, and no one really found that un-American or a threat. That is not the case today…Suck it up!
she is much like trump, playing to the audience. She’ll say what ever gets her the most attention.
Like the opening narration to classic 60’s Sci Fi series THE OUTER LIMITS went WE’LL CONTROL ALL THAT YOU SEE AND HEAR thats what the United Nations wants
no one really found that un-American or a threat.
A quote….
This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the Department of Philosophy or the Department of English—it is a problem for the Department of Justice…. Black or white, the criminal left is interested in power. It is not interested in promoting the renewal and reforms that make democracy work; it is interested in promoting those collisions and conflict that tear democracy apart.
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Spiro Agnew, Nixon’s Vice President, speaking in Florida, 1971
You can choose to revisit that era, when the new left, scrambling over the ruins of LBJ’s presidency, arrived to begin their long march through America’s institutions, through Paglia’s very dog eared recollections of her run-ins with early feminazis while a grad student, that’s fine, but it doesn’t do that era justice at all..
Memory has a funny way of taking out the bad and leaving the good That era, 1965 to 1975 was anything but placid. “America: love it or leave it!” was a slogan that was heard often.
Spiro Agnew, again, on the TV networks, 1969:
The American people would rightly not tolerate this concentration of power in Government. Is it not fair and relevant to question its concentration in the hands of a tiny, enclosed fraternity of privileged men elected by no one and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by Government? The views of a — the majority of this fraternity do not — and I repeat, not — represent the views of America. And that is why such a great gulf existed between how the nation received the President’s address and how the networks reviewed it.
http://www.americanrhetoric.com/speeches/spiroagnewtvnewscoverage.htm
Sounds familiar! Tell me again how old Camille is so refreshing and edgy? Is it because she took a potshot at Jon Leibowitz? Or sharing, I’ll wager, a universal disgust over the deliberate sale of baby limbs? She didn’t even endorse Bernie Sanders!
Why conservatives should swoon over an old lefty like Camille Paglia when she ostentatiously steps off the reservation, when she has made a career of ostentatiously stepping off the reservation is beyond me.
@NME666
I disagree, I think she truly believes in what she writes and she does it well. Don’t hold her past,(what some might consider her super lefty) comments against her. She has seen the light and articulates it well.
“Memory has a funny way of taking out the bad and leaving the good That era, 1965 to 1975 was anything but placid. “America: love it or leave it!” was a slogan that was heard often.”
Duncan
“The American who relies upon television for his news might conclude that the majority of American students are embittered radicals; that the majority of black Americans feel no regard for their country; that violence and lawlessness are the rule rather than the exception on the American campus. We know that none of these conclusions is true.”
From Spiro Agnew speech, posted by Duncan
If you had read what you posted (Agnew) you would know that what I said was accurate “none of those conclusions is true”. Spiro was there and I was there (1968 convention) as part of the media he found wanting..Yep! he was more right than wrong! What has changed since the 60’s… might be his last line
“she is much like trump, playing to the audience. She’ll say what ever gets her the most attention.”
Whereas you try to get it by routinely making asinine remarks in SDA.