Sontag drew criticism for writing in the 1967 Partisan Review that:
"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."[21]
According to journalist Christopher Hitchens, Sontag later recanted this statement, saying that "it slandered cancer patients".
Slandered cancer patients?!!!
MrWatchdawg77 1 month ago
Sontag drew criticism for writing in the 1967 Partisan Review that:
"Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don't redeem what this particular civilization has wrought upon the world. The white race is the cancer of human history."[21]
MrWatchdawg77 1 month ago