Alan Dershowitz wrote an editorial talking about how close-minded and irrational liberals are for shunning him in real life, and online liberals responded by showing how close-mindead and irrational they are by shunning him online!
What bitter irony:
Trump defender Alan Dershowitz complains he's been victimized by social profiling: "I have experienced this firsthand on Martha’s Vineyard. Old friends are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life."
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 2, 2018
From Dershowitz’ post:
The divisions have gotten so bad that many on both sides refuse to speak or listen to those on the other side. Either you are for Trump or against him, and that is all some people need to know to make judgments about you.
I know this because I have experienced this firsthand on Martha’s Vineyard. I am not a Trump supporter nor am I member of the Trump administration.
…I am a liberal Democrat in politics, but a neutral civil libertarian when it comes to the Constitution.
But that is not good enough for some of my old friends on Martha’s Vineyard. For them, it is enough that what I have said about the Constitution might help Trump. So they are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life on Martha’s Vineyard. One of them, an academic at a distinguished university, has told people that he would not attend any dinner or party to which I was invited. He and others have demanded “trigger warnings” so that they can be assured of having “safe spaces” in which they will not encounter me or my ideas. Others have said they will discontinue contributions to organizations that sponsor my talks.
This is all familiar to me, since I lived through McCarthyism in the 1950s, when lawyers who represented alleged communists on civil libertarian grounds were shunned. Some of these lawyers and victims of McCarthyism lived on Martha’s Vineyard. I never thought I would see McCarthyism come to Martha’s Vineyard, but I have.
Of course, they’re making fun of him for even bringing it up:
This is terrible
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) July 2, 2018
C'mon, Vineyarders, it's not like Alan Dershowitz is defending a man who secretly worked with our enemies to destroy our alliances, crash our economy, pervert our norms, transform the White House into a cash register, and turn America into a Russian vassal state https://t.co/3COYjECjU3
So Alan Dershowitz daily defends racist, morally depraved con-man Trump — and then he actually has the audacity to complain that his old friends are shunning and banning him from their social scene on Martha's Vineyard?
— Bill Madden (@activist360) July 2, 2018
Well, boo-f*cking-hoo.
BREAKING: Alan Dershowitz is claiming that due to his support for Trump "old friends are shunning [him] and trying to ban [him] from their social life."
— Brian Krassenstein (@krassenstein) July 2, 2018
I really don't care, do u?
Alan Dershowitz needs our thoughts and prayers right now. Due to his support for Trump, his friends are shunning him from their fancy soirées at Martha’s Vineyard. So...
— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 2, 2018
Womp womp.
Amen.
Alan Dershowitz is now complaining that his friends have dumped him due to his support for Donald Trump. This is typical of Trump’s base: whiny pathetic losers who whose feelings are hurt because they’re being shunned for supporting a racist nazi traitor.
— Palmer Report (@PalmerReport) July 2, 2018
Alan Dershowitz: "I have experienced this firsthand on Martha’s Vineyard. Old friends are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life."
— JRehling (@JRehling) July 2, 2018
That's not a ban. When we outlaw something, that's a ban. When nobody wants to hang out with you, that's just you being an asshole.
Socrates was forced to eat hemlock. Ovid, Dante, & Emma Goldman were sent into exile. Margaret Sanger was jailed. Rosa Luxemburg, Gandhi and Martin Luther King were killed. Spinoza was excommunicated. Alan Dershowitz can't find anyone to dine with at Martha's Vineyard.
— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) July 2, 2018
The often television lunatic Alan Dershowitz is whining about being shunned by his friends at Martha’s Vineyard for constantly arguing that trump, his disgusting family and his associates aren’t subject to any laws. Too bad no one really cares.
— Ricky Davila (@TheRickyDavila) July 3, 2018
What kind of world do we live in when Alan Dershowitz gets side eyes at Martha's Vineyard and Sarah Sanders is politely asked to leave a Red Hen restaurant? The end of civility. The end of decency. The end of righteous outrage. Oh, look another baby ripped from his parents...
— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 2, 2018
Ironically, this is exactly the kind of “othering” that they whine about when it happens to any minority. But it’s OK when it’s Dershowitz…