Thread by @originalspin

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.

https://twitter.com/originalspin/status/1476973323770740736

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.

https://twitter.com/wajahatali/status/1375528814424522759

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.