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Alan Dershowitz: All Americans Need to Fight Cancel Culture
BY JACK PHILLIPS March 5, 2021 Updated: March 5, 2021

Harvard Law professor emeritus said that cancel culture needs to be fought by all Americans, after a House subcommittee last week held a hearing to discuss disinformation and extremism in the media.

Dershowitz, who notably defended former President Donald Trump during his first impeachment trial last year, said that Americans who subscribe to all political viewpoints—including liberals—should be pushing back.

The House subcommittee specifically aimed at cable and satellite carriers that give a voice to conservative-leaning networks.

“I hope all Americans wake up to this,” Dershowitz told Newsmax on Thursday. “I hope it’s not just the ‘shoe is on the other foot’ test. Now, the conservatives are the victims of cancel culture so they’re big supporters of the Constitution and constitutional rights.

During McCarthyism, it was the left that were the victims, and the right were the oppressors.”

Going further, he stated that “we need both the right, the left, and also the center to stand united against censorship, against cancel culture, and in favor of the marketplace of ideas.”

“We have the right to flip the channel if we don’t like what’s on Newsmax. Change the channel, but don’t tell the carriers, the satellite carriers, and the cable carriers, to deny us the right to watch Newsmax. That is wrong,” he remarked.

Last month, Reps. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.) and Jerry McEnerney (D-Calif.) sent letters in which they asked whether cable providers should carry Newsmax, Fox News, or One America News Network. The letter was panned by Republicans, who argued that the question suggested that some Democratic lawmakers are seeking to impose authoritarian means on what can and cannot be published. This comes on the heels of a rash of censorship and deplatforming of prominent conservatives by Facebook, YouTube, Twitter, and Amazon.

A recent poll from Harvard CAPS-Harris found that about 64 percent of Americans have an unfavorable view of cancel culture, which is a form of ostr****m in which someone is removed from social circles or their job. The concept has also increasingly been applied to books and movies.

This week, the organization that oversees children’s book author Dr. Seuss’s legacy moved to stop publishing six of his books due to allegedly r****t or offensive imagery and depictions. The move drew widespread backlash online.

“Americans are showing increased and substantial concern about the growth of cancel culture,” said Mark Penn, the director of the Harvard CAPS-Harris Poll survey, reported The Hill. “Tech companies beware that the public sees them of acting out of bias tilted towards the Democrats and v**ers are calling for new regulations to ensure fairness and openness. Amazon, in particular, still has a strong image compared to Facebook and Twitter, but that image may start to erode if they expand the banning of books on their platform.”
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America has exited freedom. The foundation and history where we came from. Cancel culture is a means of power control over the weaker ones. Until they take every right from those who don't belong.

The left, or if you'd call them c*******t DIMS have t***sformed this country to full totalitarian system that the rights of the Conservatives have been stripped out.
Freedom is no longer allowed, the real history has been replaced with their own. 95% of MSM's, the tools of the radical DIMS are all actively doing it without constraint.

We must fight hard to stop this. That is why conservatism is the best way to go. We must carry and preserve our history. Without history, we have no destiny.

Kevyn

Dershowitz is a “victim” of his own hubris. Several years ago he chose to abandon his credibility for notoriety trading his reputation for celebrity. When he did so he lost something he didn’t plan on, his acceptance in polite society; and it truly hurts him. Where he was once a part of exclusive society now they reject and ridicule him for his vulgar dishonesty. What his cult doesn’t realize is that a drive for membership in this club is what drove Donald Trump to run for president. And what he failed to recognize is that buying a golden toilet, private jet decorated for a pimp, east block trophy brides or buildings with his name emblazoned on the side or even the presidency for that matter would ever gain him acceptance to this club. Dershowitz Had a seat at the table that he threw away. And now like Trump he is ridiculed by those people, and now is welcome only in the company of lucky hucksters like the my pillow guy or brash Texan oil men who chomp on thirty dollar cigars swollen bellies h*****g over diamond crusted belt buckles. Men who wrongly believe class and stature are commodities that can be bought.

What Dershowitz coins as “cancel culture” is just a fundamental function of capitalism playing itself out. Companies must adapt with the times to make money on a perpetual track of constant and infinite profit. This is why businesses engage in practices like greenwashing – packaging their goods and services in superficially environmentally friendly ways, while doing little to change their real environmental impact – and pinkwashing, the annual tradition of turning products pink for breast cancer awareness, even for products that may cause cancer themselves. These corporations don’t have morals, and don’t care about taking political or ethical stances; their bottom line is just that – their bottom line. This is how an oil company like Chevron can pat itself on the back for investing $100m in lowering emissions while simultaneously investing $20bn in oil and gas, or how Baker Hughes, one of the world’s largest oilfield operators, can proudly distribute 1,000 pink drill bits across the planet, while using known and possible carcinogens at their hydraulic fracking facilities. People like Dershowitz aren’t canceled they are simply rejected and laughed at by polite society, as a result of their own behavior, and it stings.

Dwbill Loc: Sunvalley,NV

Yep.

working class stiff Loc: N. Carolina

Some folks like to think that 'cancel culture' is some kind of l*****t plot. They forget about the largest cancel culture plot of them all:
the right's attempt to snuff out all disagreement with their way of thinking.

You are correct that Dershowitz has lost all credibility. He is a political weather vane.

lpnmajor Loc: Arkansas

Why? What has been canceled in YOUR life?

Milosia2 Loc: Cleveland Ohio

I thought Dershowitz was in jail.

kemmer

Dershowitz hitched his star to Trump, and has gone the way of Trump. Kinda sad really.

ChJoe

You're one sick and twisted boy, Mr K. I would suggest that you switch your political affiliation, if you haven't already. He's the link to do that:

http://www.cpusa.org/

Radiance3

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Emeritus professor Alan Dershowitz is 100% accurate.
All Americans must fight cancel culture.

Here are some of the preliminary effects of the cancel culture.
1. The Republican students in most liberal universities are harassed. They fail them if they don't agree with the liberal professors. The sad part is these universities are taxpayers- funded .

2. Refuse employing republican professors or staff.
3. Require companies and organizations not to hire republicans ,
4. All IT companies, Amazon, Google, Facebook, Tweeter, Apple, or Microsoft prohibit hiring republicans. won't allow them to post their ideas and remarks.

The LIBS have all the freedom to destroy, but the republicans are disarmed, prohibited to defend. These actions are a prelude to full Marxism or c*******m.
Freedom and capitalism are destroyed.

ChJoe

We need to stand up to the i***ts!!

Dwbill Loc: Sunvalley,NV

kemmer

You’ve never been to college, have you snookie.

LogicallyRight Loc: Chicago

Damn good post

ChJoe

I'm afraid he is right. Since about 2016, it is a growing trend for republicans (students who profess to be conservative, repug or libertarian) to be harassed. I have seen it on three campuses. It rose with TDS/Trump h**e and the racially charged atmosphere of the later Obama years.

Radiance3

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He was talking about the facts, happening in our country.