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General Category => Editorial/Opinion/Blogs => Topic started by: Sanguine on April 16, 2019, 04:30:14 pm
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by Anna Orso, Updated: April 15, 2019- 5:02 PM
UArts students protest professor Camille Paglia for comments on transgender people, sexual assault survivors
It was probably only a matter of time before the campus free speech debate landed in Camille Paglia’s lap. Again.
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The University of the Arts professor and social critic, known for her critiques of modern feminism, last week had a lecture targeted by protesting students and alumni angry at comments she made in a YouTube video, posted in January about the #MeToo movement, that they contend perpetuates rape culture. They also were critical of comments that they call transphobic.
Now, a Change.org petition that’s garnered more than 800 signatures is demanding that the school remove her from the faculty and stop giving her a platform to speak.
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https://www.philly.com/news/camille-paglia-u-arts-professor-philadelphia-protest-petition-transgender-survivors-sexual-assault-david-yager-20190415.html (https://www.philly.com/news/camille-paglia-u-arts-professor-philadelphia-protest-petition-transgender-survivors-sexual-assault-david-yager-20190415.html)
It was only a matter of time.
Anyone with an diversity of thought must be silenced and punished.