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Harvard's Alan Dershowitz says defending Trump has made him a discrimination victim: "I have experienced this firsthand on Marthas Vineyard. Old friends are shunning me and trying to ban me from their social life."
2:39 PM - 2 Jul 2018
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Floyd R. Turbo
(26,546 posts)Gothmog
(145,147 posts)FakeNoose
(32,634 posts)Just sayin'
cstanleytech
(26,284 posts)Cha
(297,158 posts)Typical of Fraud fans to whine they're not being treated fairly. What a slide down in the Gutter Dershowitz took.
Thanks for Seth, Goth
RhodeIslandOne
(5,042 posts)I'm glad you're finally being told as much.
C_U_L8R
(45,000 posts)dem4decades
(11,283 posts)If his friends are shunning him imagine how the rest of us feel.
maxrandb
(15,323 posts)Hekate
(90,656 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)grantcart
(53,061 posts)Squinch
(50,949 posts)Freethinker65
(10,012 posts)I am sure Alan can find some new intellectual and enlightened friends among MAGA/Trump loyalists crowd...oh wait, that might be difficult. hahahahah
unblock
(52,205 posts)busterbrown
(8,515 posts)where he can rent Bib's guest house... Being a Jew, it amazes me how so many Jews who were raised to embrace empathy, compassion and honesty.. Have become fans of right wing rhetoric..
elias7
(3,997 posts)It boggles my sister's and my minds...
unblock
(52,205 posts)It's just that the right wingers get more airtime.
I agree...
Mike Nelson
(9,953 posts)
we weep for you...
sheshe2
(83,746 posts)Go back to the pervert and chief you so adore. Martha? She is just not that into you anymore.
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)sheshe2
(83,746 posts)The welcome mat at Marred They Go.
Home home on the range
Where the pervs and supremacists play
Where seldom is heard a discouraging word
And the skies are darkened all day
Tarheel_Dem
(31,233 posts)madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)Discrimination is unjust or prejudicial treatment of different categories of people or things, especially on the grounds of race, age or sex.
His ex friends are turning their backs on him, based on his admiration and defense drivel of Trump. Hes trying to make it about anti semitism. Im pretty sure some of those who are rebuffing him are Jewish too.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)That isn't discrimination Alan, they just can't stand you as a person. There is no reason why anyone should be required to tolerate your presence.
Gothmog
(145,147 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)We can't have that happening in society, not inviting that dirtbag to parties where the really good Chardonnay is being served, with clams on the half shell.
virgogal
(10,178 posts)all be back home in a couple of months.
Phonies all.
JHB
(37,158 posts)...and you burned out your name-drop value.
Supply and demand, sugarbum.
Maybe you should sue. That'll bring them back.
spanone
(135,828 posts)Caliman73
(11,736 posts)Discrimination has different meanings and these jerks know it. We discriminate every day. I do not drink spoiled milk. I discriminate between milk that has gone bad, and that which is still fresh. Similarly, I discriminate dangerous situations. I was digging in my back yard yesterday and out popped a snake. I jumped back at first, then through discrimination, I realized that it was just your average Garter snake, a Western Ribbon snake to be exact.
Discrimination means choosing between "this and that". However, in the realm of politics and social contexts, discrimination has come to be seen as "unfair prejudice against groups". Historically racial and gender discrimination have created significant social, political, and economic problems for people of color and women.
Currently Republicans/conservatives have (as they like to do) claimed to be "discriminated against" because of their political views.
My answer to that is... YES, YES YOU ARE! SO.....?
Not all discrimination is bad. Discriminating against a person because of the color of their skin? BAD. Because of their gender? BAD. Because they support a disgusting piece of crap with horrendous policies that have hurt Americans and allies around the world? NOT BAD. That is a social consequence for your ACTIONS Alan, not based on traits that you cannot control.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Messaging.
Sad and pathetic, these times, when its more important HOW you sell it rather than WHAT youre selling. And unfortunately our Dems do NOT get this. They feel a need to go deep. Thats not necessary.
Shallow is it. Surface treatment. Nobodys interested in nuance. Its what smacks em across the face thats important. No thought or discernment needed. Just the visceral immediate grab. Sorry situation but true.
If you can make it sound good, and repeat that message ENDLESSLY, you can sell a shit pie and these low-information go with yer gut jerks will buy it and eat it. The quick hit. The quick kill. Nobody wants to stick around to read below the headline. Nobody wants the details or the long explanation. Nobody gives a damn about the fine print.
A damn shame. But thats where we are. I wish the Dems could get this.
Caliman73
(11,736 posts)I agree that it is about the framing and what "grabs" a person, but I totally lament that.
We have some folks in our camp who are good at that. President Obama was good and parts of Bernie Sanders' message was captivating. I think that Congresswoman Maxine Waters is a good example however of standing up to Trump and not letting him get the last word in. She is leading the charge on how to deal with people like Dershowitz. Shun them and don't let them enjoy the fruits of the society they are working to destroy by helping Trump.
calimary
(81,220 posts)Last edited Wed Jul 4, 2018, 02:44 PM - Edit history (1)
Just totally sucks the big one, doesn't it.
On edit - what's that recent line that comes to mind? "Womp, womp" I think.
QC
(26,371 posts)KayF
(1,345 posts)he's been on Trump's payroll in some unknown form for a while, and his line about losing friends goes back at least 8 months:
https://ijr.com/the-declaration/2017/12/1031325-dershowitz-announces-trump-diet-weight-loss-liberal-friends-stopped-inviting-dinner-parties/
Gothmog
(145,147 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)How tone deaf to be crying about how people in Marthas Vineyard shun him when he *chooses* to defend someone who is actively and gleefully destroying poor peoples lives.
Lie down with vermin, get fleas.
Gothmog
(145,147 posts)GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)A HERETIC I AM
(24,367 posts)"Waaaah! People don't like me because I have sided with a racist, asshole, bully!"
What's that expression about chickens, a homecoming and roosting?
Chickensoup
(650 posts)Do you know what I like about you.
Absolutely nothing.
lpbk2713
(42,754 posts)And who is not.
Get over it.
Tatiana
(14,167 posts)These monsters deserve it.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)You are a schmuck, a putz and a big shmegege. Farshtayst?
Mz Pip
(27,439 posts)Do U?
babylonsister
(171,057 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,548 posts)it's discrimination? I don't think so.
TomSlick
(11,097 posts)Most of us do not chose to socialize with the abhorrent.
Gothmog
(145,147 posts)Takket
(21,563 posts)but SHS missed dinner and the neighbors won't break out the expensive wine and cheese when Dershowitz shows up for the yacht party so.... both sides!
OliverQ
(3,363 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,926 posts)I like that Harvard still has him there.
It shows that they are open to public discussion, equal opportunity, and provides a focal point for political openness and public discourse.
So, in the interest of "public discourse," - F**K YOU, ALAN!!!!!!!!
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)Sane folks arent going to tolerate it.
Martin Eden
(12,864 posts)... he EARNED it.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)qazplm135
(7,447 posts)act a fool, get treated like a fool.
zerobytes
(10 posts)He is so intelligent he has no idea what discrimination means, you sir, are being shunned.
kwassa
(23,340 posts)Like Trump, he can never get enough, and is therefore a victim.
DeminPennswoods
(15,284 posts)nt
struggle4progress
(118,281 posts)I'm quite sure it's because I once said something about Trump that someone somewhere didn't like! Fox News hasn't called back yet to cover this story, but they will!
onecaliberal
(32,830 posts)appleannie1943
(1,303 posts)it usually means you are the problem.
AZ8theist
(5,457 posts)Go FUCK YOURSELF, Dotard boot licker.
MBS
(9,688 posts)Firestorm49
(4,032 posts)dchill
(38,474 posts)workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)Dershowitz.
He is enabling a fascist pig that kidnaps babies from their mothers and locks them up in fucking cages!!!
And thats just one of the many horrors of Herr Shitlers regime.
Ill send thoughts and prayers Dershowitz, you sick POS!!!
Oh and FUCK CIVILITY!!!!
mackdaddy
(1,526 posts)Dershowitz certainly got him a sweetheart deal on the underage trafficking charges.
Just remember that Allen Dershowitz did NOT have sex with that under age girl on the Lolita express!
http://www.businessinsider.com/alan-dershowitz-jeffrey-epstein-settlement-2016-4
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)What a jerk.
Jersey Devil
(9,874 posts)Boo hoo
JarOCats
(119 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)ProfessorGAC
(65,005 posts)Displaying discriminating taste and discrimination are not the same thing.
Orsino
(37,428 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)And found wanting.
We shall know them by fruits.
Gothmog
(145,147 posts)KansasKali
(105 posts)Get use to it turncoat.
democratisphere
(17,235 posts)Time to go into obscurity.
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Hey Dershy, ya gotta earn respect. You pissed away all your earnings when you went anti-American and pro-KGOP republican corruption and treason.
shanny
(6,709 posts)iow, the opposite of discrimination.
ck4829
(35,068 posts)The Polack MSgt
(13,187 posts)"The horror of being treated as someone slightly less important than a ruling potentate by other multimillionaires - on the richest and whitest place in America - is an unbearable agony." Alan Dershowitz's inner monologue
Seriously?
Fuck this bag of rags.
You can build bridges, treat the sick, and save puppies - it doesn't matter... Fuck one pig and you're a pigfucker forever, and I hate to remind ya Al, Trump ain't your first porker
matt819
(10,749 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,936 posts)Kids are being separated from their parents and you're being shunned at Martha's Vineyard.
backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Of course, assholes are not a protected class under the Civil Rights Act.
oasis
(49,378 posts)It's a process. Ask Susan Sarandon.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)wedding? Not sure if he was selling them or giving them away. I couldn't find a link, but I recall reading that somewhere.
No wonder he is persona non grata.