All posts tagged "Camille Paglia"

Last week, Adam Weinstein asked on Gawker: Where Is the Humanities' Neil deGrasse Tyson? Coming on the heels of Nick Kristof’s badly-framed and much-derided call for professors to speak more broadly and openly to nonacademic audiences (as if we don’t already do that, every chance we get), Weinstein’s question was easy to misframe and deride. Also, it was on Gawker, so it was all the more tempting for academics to dismiss, as if it were a “which obscure humanist are you?” quiz on Buzzfeed.

Today's Camille Paglia column has been roundly vilified for its idiotic take on Palin's decision to drop out; I think it deserves vilification for an entirely different reason.

Were I one to accuse others of racism, I would surely point out how racist it is that a person doesn't "know" Barack Obama after two years of being at the apex of the national spotlight, but can look into Sarah Palin's eyes through the TV and know that this is a good, decent woman who's been treated unfairly.

Barack Obama needs to stop acting so fucking black. White people hate that shit.