Bandy Lee said Donald Trump and Alan Dershowitz showed signs of mental aberration. Dershowitz called her remarks unethical “distance diagnosis”—and Yale fired her. Lee’s peers see this as a dire attack on speech. So where are the anti-cancel culturistas?
nymag.com/intelligencer/…
Prominent anti-“cancel culture” advocate @Yascha_Mounk did chime in early on: He wrote a lengthy piece for Slate *criticizing* @BandyXLee1. Since Dershowitz’s email that led to her firing, I’ve seen nothing in his feed or public writings defending her academic right to speech. Image
I haven’t seen other Harper’s signers taking up @BandyXLee1’s case either. Not even when prominent voices like @WajahatAli pointed out that Lee is a real case of “cancellation”—a powerful, connected white male getting an immigrant woman of color fired for political speech.
In fact, the loudest voice in the “cancel culture” dialogue on Bandy Lee remains…Dershowitz himself, author of “Cancel Culture: The Latest Attack on Free Speech and Due Process.” Who despite many questionable ethical actions is regularly platformed—while claiming to be canceled.

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I don’t know what it looks like. Funding shelter operations? Building tiny homes?
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