{"id":13175,"date":"2019-09-03T12:29:14","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13175"},"modified":"2019-09-03T12:33:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T16:33:46","slug":"a-feminist-capitalist-professor-under-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/a-feminist-capitalist-professor-under-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"A Feminist Capitalist Professor Under Fire"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The students who demand her firing, Camille Paglia argues, take prosperity for granted, are socially undeveloped, and know little about Western history. Who\u2019s Moses? <\/em><\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

WALL STREET JOURNAL<\/strong>, Opinion by Tunku Varadarajan — August 30, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Excerpts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ms. Paglia laments that the \u201cantisex and repressively doctrinaire side of feminism is back again\u2014big!\u201d She calls it \u201cvictim feminism\u201d and complains that \u201ceverything we\u2019d won in the 1990s has been totally swept away. Now we have this endless privileging of victimhood, with a pathological vulnerability seen as the default human mode.\u201d Everyone is made to cater to it\u2014\u201cin the workplace, in universities, in the demand for safe spaces.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a teacher of undergraduates, Ms. Paglia despairs at how \u201cbad it is for young people, filled with fears, to be raised in this kind of a climate where personal responsibility isn\u2019t spoken of.\u201d Since her own youth, she says, college students have devolved from rebels into skittish supplicants, petitioning people in authority to protect them from real life. Young adults are encouraged to look for \u201csubstitute parent figures on campus, which is what my generation rebelled against in college. We threw that whole \u2018in loco parentis\u2019 thing out.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

There\u2019s an undeniable irony in hearing a septuagenarian, from a generation that was famously preoccupied with youth, deplore the state of today\u2019s young people. \u201cOur parents were the World War II generation,\u201d Ms. Paglia says, \u201cso they had a sense of reality about life.\u201d Children now \u201care raised in a far more affluent period. Even people without much money have cellphones, televisions, access to cars. They\u2019re raised in an air-conditioned environment. I can still remember when there was no air-conditioning.\u201d She shudders as she sips her cold beer, adding that she suffered horribly in the heat.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEverything is so easy now,\u201d Ms. Paglia continues. \u201cThe stores are so plentifully supplied. You just go in and buy fruits and vegetables from all over the world.\u201d Undergrads, who\u2019ve studied neither economics nor history, \u201chave a sense that this is the way life has always been. Because they\u2019ve never been exposed to history, they have no idea that these are recent attainments that come from a very specific economic system.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Capitalism, she continues, has \u201cproduced this cornucopia around us. But the young seem to believe in having the government run everything, and that the private companies that are doing things for profit around them, and supplying them with goods, will somehow exist forever.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She recalls a \u201chorrifying\u201d example from her classroom a few years ago. She was teaching \u201cGo Down, Moses, \u201d the famous Negro spiritual. \u201cThe whole thing is about antiquity,\u201d she says, \u201cbut obviously it has contemporary political references.\u201d She passed out the lyrics and played the music, \u201cand it suddenly hit me with horror\u2014none of them recognized the name \u2018Moses.\u2019 And I thought: Oh my God, when Moses is erased from the West, what is left of Western civilization?\u201d <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The complete article can be viewed, with a subscription to the WSJ, at the following link:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/a-feminist-capitalist-professor-under-fire-11567201511<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n


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