Joyce Carol Oates is another useful idiot. That doesn’t perturb me as much as for instance Prose, because I have never liked Oates’s writing, to put it mildly.
Deborah Solomon @deborahsolo 16 hours ago
Thank you, @PENAmerican, for honoring #CharlieHebdo & not bowing to the pressures of literary correctness. http://nyti.ms/1GmLLYeJoyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates 4 hours ago
@deborahsolo @PENamerican It is a very delicate issue to honor “freedom of expression” without seeming to endorse seeming “hate speech.”
I wonder what the scare quotes are for. If Oates doesn’t think it is hate speech, then what is she talking about?
… Read the restJoyce Carol Oates@JoyceCarolOates
@deborahsolo @PENamerican Have you actually seen these “satirical” images? If they were of
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