Shall the lunatics always be in the right to take over the asylum? With the rise of the academic snowflake, this seems to be the mentality these days.
It's what it's come to as one reads about the disgusting efforts of student snowflakes at Philadelphia's University of the Arts to take over the university's hiring decisions and force it to fire distinguished scholar Camille Paglia, a woman whose intellectual heft is probably why the place is called 'university' instead of 'college' now.
I wrote about it a bit earlier, but this new report just out from The Atlantic, called 'Camille Paglia Can't Say That' shows just how bad it really got.
“Camille Paglia should be removed from UArts faculty and replaced by a queer person of color,” an online petition declares. “If, due to tenure, it is absolutely illegal to remove her, then the University must at least offer alternate sections of the classes she teaches, instead taught by professors who respect transgender students and survivors of sexual assault.” Regardless, the students behind the petition want her banned from holding speaking events or selling books on campus. In their telling, her ideas “are not merely ‘controversial,’ they are dangerous.”I first saw the link to the story on scholar Christina Sommers's twitter feed (which is well worth a follow): ........... Read more
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