Camille Paglia or Samuel Huntington? It was hard to tell
Wednesday when Paglia said in an interview with Tracy Clark-Flory in Salon
that “the escalating instability not just in Egypt but throughout the Mideast
is very ominous. There is a clash of cultures brewing in the world that may
take a century or more to resolve — and there is no guarantee that the secular
West will win.”
This is the kind of talk that has gotten many another
writer and commentator labeled as a racist bigot. Paglia’s “clash of cultures”
is closely akin to Huntington’s “clash of civilizations,” which notwithstanding
how obvious it is that just such a clash is taking place. ….. However, as Sam
Harris, Joyce
Carol Oates, and Richard
Dawkins have recently learned, Camille Paglia will not be exempt. If she
keeps talking about a “clash of cultures” that the secular West might lose,
she, too, will be tarred as a “racist, bigoted Islamophobe,” impeccable Leftist
credentials notwithstanding….To Read More…
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