Dershowitz: ‘The Fog of Fascism Is Descending Quickly Over Many American Universities’

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I think Dershowitz’s comments deserve their own thread:

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File under overheated hyperbole–or Godwin.

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Hyperbole aside Dershowitz and David Horowitz agree on this.

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I didn’t realize people actually considered CNS a reliable news source.

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@latichever not total hyperbole. Check out what’s happening at Amherst where protestors are demanding that free speech advocates “be required to go through a disciplinary process as well as ‘extensive training for racial and cultural competency.’”. http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/11/13/amherst-students-demand-no-free-speech-signs-or-else.html. Can you say Cultural Revolution?

The group’s twitter says non-POC allies are welcome “but you must declare you’re [sic] white privilege and respect black leadership.”

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They agree on a lot of things. Dersh has turned into a right-wing crank for a while now.

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Sorry, regardless of what you think about what’s going on at Amherst and other campuses, to call it fascism diminishes and trivializes fascism.

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Or inmates are thinking that they can run the asylum. There is a point though that even these schools need to maintain credibility and will have to shut these things down.

Thank God for the Internet though. All these students can be searched and identified over time and many a employer will wisely avoid them while hiring. If they think that companies are going to waste money and time defending them from everything they do not like, they will learn quite differently when unemployed.

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I’m sorry, Dershowitz likes to hear himself pontificate like a chubby kid loves cake…

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Great response by the school newspaper to the Claremont babies.

http://claremontindependent.com/we-dissent/

(Emphasis mine)

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definitely in the same group as Vox

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Are you suggesting that Dershowitz didn’t say those things, or the article misrepresent his views?

Insulting to followers of the Pontiff, and fat-shaming, all in one sentence?

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@boolaHI: The Dersh loves to hear himself talk, and his about-face after 9/11 was cowardly and hypocritical, but he’s not wrong here. It’s hard to be persuaded by groups of students mobbing individuals and then complaining the lot of them “didn’t feel safe.”

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You should be careful, you’re starting to sound like one of those evil SJW’s I’ve been hearing about.

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Wow, fat shaming, sugar addict and child shaming, Catholic shaming all in one sentence. I think we have a micro aggression winner.

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Yup, really nailing fictious kids that love sweets…btw, it’s from a 50 cents song.

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Reappropriating black culture too!

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It’s all just an absolute joke. Spellman’s resignation is totally unwarranted and comes from a basic rephrasing of how the student initially worded her concern. If anything, it’s a very trivial faux pas at best. On a larger scale beyond Claremont McKenna, you have administrators abasing themselves, forfeiting their jobs, and causing potential irreparable harm to their careers over some mentally fragile, cowardly, hypersensitive, spoiled little brats.

And all over, in the vast majority of cases, some very tenuously contrived accounts of oppression. Anybody see the Halloween costume picture that forced a student representative at Claremont McKenna to step down (through social pressure and intimidation)? It’s absolutely pathetic. And it all goes on unchecked through the ostensible notion that nobody else can understand their apparent “plight” or “victimhood” and is hence (groundlessly) immune from standard recriminatory subjections.

That administration tacitly approves of this rabble-rousing mob groupthink BS by having a member step down for no legitimate reason is absolutely deplorable. What’s funny is that many of them would not have even achieved admission in the first place if it wasn’t for the university’s liberal admissions policies where barely over 40% of the student body identifies as white, over a third are minorities, and another quarter or so are international students or non-listed. And some decide to go ahead and express their gratitude by making little to no attempt to assimilate into the larger campus social environment, feeling entitled to special quasi-victim status, assuming mob mentality, and demanding resignations of perfectly good people through intimidation as a consequence of their own spinelessness. They’re letting the proverbial inmates run the asylum. What do they expect?

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Hmmn, when you’re black…I don’t think so.

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. What’s funny is that many of them would not have even achieved admission in the first place if it wasn’t for the university’s liberal admissions policies where barely over 40% of the student body identifies as white, over a third are minorities, and another quarter or so are international students or non-listed.

What proof of this, and on what criteria given the holistic nature of admissions…