{"id":31422,"date":"2017-08-24T11:07:08","date_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31422"},"modified":"2017-08-24T11:07:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-24T15:07:08","slug":"a-voice-of-reason-from-the-political-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=31422","title":{"rendered":"A Voice Of Reason From The Political Left"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Tuesday Alan Dershowitz<\/a> commented on the recent activism by the political left. Professor Dershowitz’s comments were posted in a Washington Times <\/a>article posted on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Some of Professor Dershowitz’s comments:<\/p>\n

…the movement sweeping the country to take down Confederate<\/a>-era statues<\/a> that some find offensive is setting a dangerous precedent.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cDo not glorify the violent people who are now tearing down the statues,\u201d he said. \u201cMany of these people, not all of them, many of these people are trying to tear down America<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u201cAntifa<\/a> is a radical anti-American<\/a>, anti-free market, communist, socialist, hard, hard left<\/a> censorial organization that tries to stop speakers on campuses from speaking,\u201d Mr. Dershowitz<\/a> said. \u201cThey use violence. And just because they\u2019re opposed to fascism and to some of these monuments shouldn\u2019t make them heroes of the liberals.\u201d<\/strong><\/div>\n

\u201cI\u2019m a liberal, and I think it\u2019s the obligation of liberals to speak out against the hard left radicals just like it\u2019s the obligation of conservatives to speak out against the extremism of the hard right,\u201d he added.<\/strong><\/p>\n

…\u201cWe have to use this as an educational moment,\u201d he said. \u201cWe have to take some of the statues that were put up more recently, for example, during the Civil Rights Movement<\/a> and perhaps move them to museums where they can be used to teach young students about how statues are intended sometimes for bad purposes, to glorify negatives and to hold back positive developments.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cBut the idea of willy-nilly going through and doing what Stalin did \u2014 just erasing history and re-writing it to serve current purposes \u2014 does pose a danger, and it poses a danger of educational malpractice, of missing opportunities to educate people, and of going too far,\u201d he said.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mr. Dershowitz<\/a> argued that the movement against Confederate-era statues ignores other discriminated groups in America, like Jews, women, and the Japanese.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOnce you start rewriting history of African Americans<\/a> in this country, you have to start rewriting history of discrimination against many, many other groups,\u201d he said. \u201cLook, we\u2019re both a nation of immigrants and a nation of discrimination against immigrants. That\u2019s an important history for us to remember.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if our political leaders currently following the crowd on the rewriting of history would listen to the words of Professor Dershowitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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