By now, everyone alive must have heard of the saying: “You can’t shout ‘fire’ in a crowded theater.” It was coined about a century ago by the US Supreme Court to assert that when it comes to freedom of speech, there are limits as to how freely you can use the privilege or deny it to others.
The
reason why it’s important not to lose sight of this saying, is that Jews of the
Alan M. Dershowitz variety, fiddle with the subject at every occasion that
presents itself, and exploit it to their advantage. The trouble with this situation,
however, is that three characteristics of the Judeo-Yiddish culture make the
Jews ill-equipped to handle a subject as consequential as free speech.
First,
the Jews suffer from the propensity of seeing things and evaluating them with
the yardstick of absolutes and superlatives. This makes them stand perpetually
on the fringes of acceptable norms of behavior. And so, when it comes to
evaluating a situation that requires the drawing of a fine line between the
demands of two competing rights, one of which may be their own, the coarseness
of the Jewish approach prevents them from imagining what a fine line looks like,
let alone abide by the rules that forbid them from encroaching on the
neighbors’ rights.
Second,
the Jews gave themselves the proverbial “get out of jail” card that allows them
to describe someone as being extremely evil for saying or doing one thing,
whereas a Jew saying or doing the same thing, is described as engaging in
normal behavior. When called upon to explain this double-standard, the Jews flash
the get out of jail card. That is, they call the request to explain their
stance, an act of antisemitism. The net result of this state of affairs, is
that Jews get to use free speech beyond the most extreme limit you can imagine,
whereas non-Jews get cancelled for saying or doing a fraction of what the Jews
are allowed to say and do.
Third,
Jews have the habit of looking at themselves in the mirror where they see the
full ugliness of what they stand for. When they get too nauseated by what they
see and they cannot stand it anymore, they turn around and accuse others of being
what they saw in themselves.
To
hide the reality of that odd situation, thus maintain it in force at
perpetuity, Jews such as Alan Dershowitz, fill the marketplace of ideas with
phony arguments by which they pretend to defend free speech for all, when in
reality, they defend absolute free speech for themselves and none for everyone
else. You can see an example of that in the article that came under the title:
“Supreme Court Cheerleads for First Amendment,” written by Alan Dershowitz, and
published on June 28, 2021 on the website of the Gatestone Institute.
Here
is a passage in the article that reeks of the stink which reveals the floating
of a typical Alan Dershowitz effort to turn reality upside down. The passage reads
as follows: “Free speech for me, but not for thee” has become a common mantra
of the hard left, and of those institutions that kowtow to the most radical
elements of society.
Alan
Dershowitz wrote that passage right after a preamble that went as shown in the
following paragraph. It is here reproduced in condensed form:
“The
Supreme Court is still in the business of protecting offensive speech, even as
big tech, universities and progressives have tried to justify pervasive
censorship of speech with which they disagree. Contemporary censorship comes
not from the government, but from private parties who themselves have the First
Amendment right to censor speech with which they disagree. What we are
experiencing is an attack on the culture of free speech that the First
Amendment is designed to protect. Today institutions punish students for social
media statements they may have posted when they were young”.
But
what is it that has prompted Alan Dershowitz to accuse big tech, universities
and progressives of pervasive censorship of speech? And what is it that gave
him the opportunity to falsely assert that this ruling of the Supreme Court has
served to send a powerful message to the effect that the Court is in the
business of protecting free speech from the likes of big tech, universities and
progressives?
Well,
you won’t be surprised to know that bigmouth Alan Dershowitz has once again
made a mountain out of a molehill to serve his own purpose. Here is how he
described the case that the Court has tackled: “A 14-year-old made the mistake
of sending a rant to a few friends, one of whose mothers was a coach.” The
school disciplined the girl, and the case went to court.
When
the Court came up with a verdict, it said nothing about big tech, universities
or progressives. The message that came out of its pronouncement, is that a
private organization can have a code of conduct that is reasonable, and the
courts will enforce it. This case was not eligible because kids ranting among
themselves the way that kids normally do, is neither protected nor prohibited
by the First Amendment. It simply has nothing to do with it.
Despite the trivial nature of the case, it is clear that Alan Dershowitz has once again taken advantage of the situation to maintain both the condition of total freedom of speech for Jews, and the accusation of antisemitism for the non-Jews who invoke the right to free speech and use it to push back against the Jewish line.