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'''Dead white males''' are significant figures in the history of [[Western civilization]] whom liberals despise in modern times, due to ideologically opposition to their contributions. However,
 
'''Dead white males''' are significant figures in the history of [[Western civilization]] whom liberals despise in modern times, due to ideologically opposition to their contributions. However,
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:"Bloom [[Allen Bloom|Bloom]] believes, among many other things, that a body of great literature of imperishable value exists, recognizable solely by its intrinsic aesthetic merits; further, that those who try to use or subvert the great works for extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse."<ref> [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981571,00.html Hurrah for Dead White Males! - TIME]</ref>
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:"[[Allen Bloom|Bloom]] believes, among many other things, that a body of great literature of imperishable value exists, recognizable solely by its intrinsic aesthetic merits; further, that those who try to use or subvert the great works for extraliterary purposes, i.e., anything smacking of social engineering, are barbarians; and further still, that these barbarians are not at the gates but are largely in charge of American education and the nation's debased institutions of public discourse."<ref> [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,981571,00.html Hurrah for Dead White Males! - TIME]</ref>
    
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