Letters to the Editor
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Oh, Camille!
When you remove God from the equation, what is religion but politics?
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Hillary-envy
My, my, did I detect a twinge of jealousy in the way you described Campbell Brown looking at Hillary, Camille?
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Yay!
I'm no longer paying for this! Hurrah! Didn't read article. Refuse. Just wanted to post that this columnist is why I am no longer a subscriber. Will now refuse to even enter Salon for a few days until the plague has run its course and once more disappeared.
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Remember - Salon gave David Horowitz for two years or so
Salon - you've done it again. You've made me take my credit card out of the auto-renewal field on my account. BRAVO!
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Remember - Salon published David Horowitz for two years or so
Salon - you've done it again. You've made me take my credit card out of the auto-renewal field on my account. BRAVO!
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Dogma Dame
Camille's great- she stirs things up like my favorite
college professors did. Don't understand why people want
to pick her apart. There are reasons SHE is the one being published, not us.
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Salon, I can quit ya
and I did and CP is the reason why I'm no longer a paying subscriber!
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Thank You
Dear CP, Thanks for the years of education, opinion, and laughs. I recently had the great pleasure of introducing your columns to my new wife (a typical NYC reactionary leftie I am dearly in love with). I truly wish there were more independent thinking, well-read, and open-minded progressives such as yourself. I quickly grow nauseous or bored when I hear or read the anti-intellectual filth that comes from the vast majority of today's typical and tiresome angry liberals.
Happy Channukah, Brett Prince
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It is better to receive than to give... when Tolerance is the commodity :- )
Check those knee-jerk right-wing blogs and you will find authors saying many things not liked by the dittoheads.
(Say) Ann Coulter will be found writing that George W. Bush is a sellout, or that Mitt Romney is a fake, or that Fox News / Bill O'Reilly are hypocrites.
What you will NOT find is a dreary pile of poisonous ad hominems, demanding shrilly that we not listen to the author, every time said author writes something the readers don't like.
That the left fancies itself the party of tolerance, is America's greatest political irony. The anti-Paglia rants in this thread are truly drenched in hatred -- hatred provoked by what? By dissension?
The irony of the left's sermonizing on "tolerance" is not lost on middle America. The jig has been up for a long time. All that remains for the left is to gnash its teeth at the foolishness of the 90% of the country that is obviously too unintelligent to heed its ad hominems.
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Speaking of rotted corpses
What does this even mean: "I substitute art and nature for God -- the grandeur of man and the vast mystery of the universe."
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Former conservative, because of this crap
Excuse me that I don't have "tolerance" for unsupported B.S. from either side of the aisle. People, a lack of content is a lack of content, I don't care where it comes from. I can't even argue with this woman's points because they are so flimsy. I'm thinking the conservative thinkers who are popping up here seem to be really into that. Flimsy opinions, based on opinion and hearsay...
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The Brian Fellow's Show
'Al Gore got the Nobel Prize this week for his role as chief propagandist in spreading global warming hysteria into every nook and cranny of credulous minds. I expect that this baseless panic, like all fads, will evaporate when apocalypse doesn't arrive on schedule. Meanwhile let's focus on legitimate practical issues -- such as the grotesque volume of pollution belched by big-rig trucks....' That's Crazy! Hi....I'm Brian Fellow!
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Paglia's Ludicrous Effusions
Even a quarter century after her Little Rock prime, Gennifer Flowers was one of the most radiant, charismatic people I have ever seen in my life.
Either you really don't get out too often, or your standards are really, really low. Every piece by Camille Paglia can be counted on to include at least one totally ga-ga adoration of one of her pop culture "icons." If it isn't Madonna, it's some pathetic pinup like Anna Nicole Smith, or Gennifer Flowers, still trying to exploit her only claim to fame, having once been a port of call for Bill Clinton's penis.
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Cliché days
Gee thanks, Camille, for perpetrating more "bankrupt atheism" bullshit -- like we're sooo influential to begin with!? Considering we rank as the least trusted group in America, I guess we're an easy cheap shot for your prejudicial stereotyping. In my defense, your "rotting corpse" characterization of atheism bears no resemblance to my atheism but I suspect it's an accurate projection of your own rotten core.
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Whereas: you DO tolerate whom, Beth? :- )
You have given your reasons for your intolerance of Camille Paglia, Beth. OK, the problem is that she writes BS. Got it.
Your reasons for trying to suppress the views of everybody *else* who disagrees with you are ... which?
If the left attacked Camille and Ann with the intent of suppressing them, but engaged Thomas and Charles with reason rather than vitriol ... that would be one thing.
The problem is this: with which well-reasoned thinker of the right wing DO you have a rapport, Beth?
To paraphrase Camille above, it is an awfully small world in which the far left wishes to live.
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@ drdetekto
I'm afraid that the problem with Camille Paglia is that her commentary is just not very good. It's just a bunch of poorly reasoned (even self-contradictary) statements thrown out with the intent of being "edgy," "iconoclastic" and "controversial." The level of contrivance is transparent, which makes her basically very boring to read. If she were making good-faith, logical arguments that told me something new and interesting, I wouldn't have a problem with her. But she's just trying to stir up a bunch of people who are - quite frankly - way too easy to stir up in the first place. I've said below that people should just ignore Camille Paglia. Reading her column is just a source of pointless irritation. Some people like to be irritated, I guess, and that's why they read her column.
You're right about one thing. A lot of people on the Salon letters page aren't very tolerant of people who have different opinions. Sometimes it's disillusioning to read how low the level of discourse can get in the letters page. But I think it's a little weird to think that the right is any different in this regard. I don't think it's a left/right thing. I think you get the same sort of people on both extremes of the political spectrum. It's a joke to say that people on the right don't engage in shrill, ad hominem attacks. When you say something like that, you really betray an utter lack of objectivity.