Oh honestly.
(1/2) I’m reveling not whining. I’m proud of taking an unpopular, principled position that gets me shunned by partisan zealots. It’s not about me. I couldn’t care less about being shunned by such people. It’s about their unwillingness to engage in dialogue.
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 3, 2018
No. The fact that it’s an “unpopular” position doesn’t make it something to be proud of. Support for Donald Trump is “unpopular” for compelling reasons. Sometimes the minority is just wrong. Sometimes preening yourself on taking an “unpopular” position is just fatuous vanity.
(2/2) It’s bad enough when college students demand trigger warnings and safe spaces to avoid hearing views with which they disagree. But it’s worse when it comes from professors and media people. It’s a dangerous sign of the times.
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 3, 2018
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I could not care less what bilious nonsense spills out of Alan Dershowitz’s face sphincter. No one with the tiniest scintilla of critical thinking capacity would waste a moment paying attention to Dershowitz, so well-established is his reputation for morally bankrupt and entirely irrational opining.
SO WHY IS THE NEW YORK TIMES GIVING COLUMN INCHES TO HIS CHILDISH WHINING FFS!?!?!?!??
I’ve never taken the NYT’s self-congratulatory “paper of record” attitude all that seriously, but its generally downward trajectory (which really began in the late 90s) has grown astonishingly steep this past year.
I’ve not encountered the man until this post, so can have no opinion about his former pronouncements, just a poor one concerning his strawmanning of the opposition.
I’m prepared to give him credit for one thing, though; for using “I couldn’t care less” correctly.
tiggerthewing;
Whatever his legitimate qualifications, Dershowitz ‘s credibility doesn’t seem to have recovered from his time on OJ Simpson’s ‘team’ defense.