Posted on 11/13/2015 8:31:06 PM PST by markomalley
Retired Harvard University Law Professor Alan Dershowitz strongly criticized the recent protests at the University of Missouri and Yale University, stating that “these students are book burners,” and “the fog of fascism is descending quickly over many American universities.”
Dershowitz made his comments during an interview on The Kelly File on Thursday. When asked for his reaction about the student unrest at Yale and the University of Missouri, Dershowitz said, “These are the same people who claim they are seeking diversity. The last thing many of these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas. They may want superficial diversity, diversity of gender, diversity of color, but they don’t want diversity of ideas.”
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“We are seeing a curtain of McCarthyism descend over many college campuses,” said Dershowitz. “I don't want to make analogies to the 1930s, but we have to remember it was the college students who first started burning books during the Nazi regime. And these students are book burners. They don’t want to hear diverse views on college campuses.”
“When I went to speak at Johns Hopkins University there were protests," he said. “It was said that because I won’t acknowledge that Israel commits crimes against the Palestinians, I am quote ‘harassing students’ and violating the ethical standards of Johns Hopkins University.”
“By expressing my opinion,” he continued, “I am ‘harassing students.’ This has become a very serious problem not only in American universities, but in universities around the world as well. And it is influencing and having a terrible impact on the education of students.”
“It is the worst kind of hypocrisy,” said Dershowitz. “They want complete freedom over their sex lives, over their personal lives, over the use of drugs, but they want mommy and daddy, dean, and president to please give them a safe place, to protect them from ideas that maybe are insensitive. Maybe we’ll make them think, but it’s a double standard.”
“Look at what’s happening at Hunter University, City University of New York, students from Students for Justice in Palestine have issued a petition saying Zionist administrators are causing high tuition in the school,” said the former Harvard law professor.
“Zionist administrators, you know what they mean by Zionist?” he said. “They mean Jews. Blatant anti-Semitism, nobody says a word.”
He continued, “When I spoke at Johns Hopkins University, some of the protesting students, the same students who were talking about 'safe places,' painted a Hitler mustache on my posters. No concern about that, it’s an absolute double standard.
“It is free speech for me, but not for thee. And universities should not tolerate this kind of hypocrisy, double standard, and college administrators have to start treating students as adults and talking back to them.
“If you're going to be a college administrator, or a professor, if you have tenure, you have to speak back to the students, you have to call these things what they are: double standards, hypocrisy, bigotry, McCarthyism, and the fog of fascism is descending quickly over many American universities.”
It’s time to shut down all of these daycare centers. IMHO. They aren’t learning anything anyway. They’re just be programmed by the communist party.
Whats the matter Al? Did the ghost of Auschwitz Past come visit you and remind you who it was that helped make these leftists what they are?
Yourself?
i’ve been saying this in response to too many things lately.
This is a funny country.
I can’t wait till 2017 when I can stop saying it.
Yet Dershowitz has been a strong proponent of the party that is in line with the idiots he criticizes. Alan, you can’t support one without the other.
Again...! Amen, baby!
These b@$+a#^s are forced finally forced to get up and change the sheets on that nasty bed they made for themselves. Oh, happy day and Hillary too.
People can butch about me saying it all they want. I’m not the guy that beats my chest about being conservative and then a week before an election, tells his audience to forget the other 3 years, 11 months and 3 weeks and LISTEN TO ME NOW!!!!!
Oops, wrong thread. Please ignore folks.
” The last thing many of these students want is real diversity, diversity of ideas.”
Looking at the politically left-wing monolithic nature of the administrators and faculties of the colleges, the students need not worry. What they are getting in the classrooms will bear no resemblance to diversity.
Alan has spent his career demanding an expansive government that caters to the 70 IQ population. He has adhered to a party that demonized values and self-reliance. Alan doesn’t like the ugliness he has had a hand in nurturing
” It’s time to shut down all of these daycare centers.”
Kudos. Best description I’ve seen of these very expensive indoctrination camps.
Though I must say in unlike all these centers of no learning, in most daycare centers the adults are still in charge.
Yup.
Hey Dersh, explain to the world how you treated your first wife, Sue Barlach, resulting in her death. FUAD!
Oh, yes! We’re finding out who’s up and who’s down. My only consolation is remembering that only 10% were willing to bring the American Revolution.
National Review, hotair, Daily Porn, certainly feral FOX and now Mark Levin. All geniuses, right? Know it ALL, right? Conservative patriots, huh? More like beard stroking asses.
All of them, folded, all are skirts and high heels when it comes to a real red line. No heart, no game, no fight, and sure as hell no real battle-ready in any of them! But, they have plenty of rowdy, stinking advice for the rest of us though. Professorial pusses as it turns out.
Just, damn.
I just have a hard time listening to him. He cheated on his wife on several occasions with a 16 year old girl. To me it drowns out anything else he says or does. A teen kept as a sex slave by Deshowitz’s client Epstein. So sickening and morally and legally wrong, but Ye great Constitutional expert had zero problem pulling out his member and taking pleasure in the young captive girl.
But the clear shy of american nationalism will soon clean out the fog.
What’s the problem, Al Baby? What’s going on now is the logical conclusion of what you’ve pushed your entire career. Disingenuous loser.
Alan Dershowitz is as liberal as they get but he’s intellectually honest. He won’t defend the indefensible simply because it’s the cause du jour of leftists. I don’t like his politics even a little but but I respect him.
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