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Cancel culture, the latest attack on free speech and due process, Alan Dershowitz - hardback
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  • A legal scholar makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the "cancellation" of individuals and institutions. Dershowitz states his case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against excesses of cancel culture--the rush to judgment and the devastating results it can have on those who may be innocent, the power of social media to effect punishment without a thorough examination of evidence, the idea that historical events can be viewed through the same lens as actions in the present day--he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that canceling may itself be a constitutionally-protected form of free speech
  • "In Cancel Culture, Alan Dershowitz--New York Times bestselling author and one of America's most respected legal scholars--makes an argument for free speech, due process, and restraint against the often overeager impulse to completely cancel individuals and institutions at the ever-changing whims of social media-driven crowds. Alan Dershowitz has been called 'one of the most prominent and consistent defenders of civil liberties in America' by Politico and "the nation's most peripatetic civil liberties lawyer and one of its most distinguished defenders of individual rights" by Newsweek. Yet he has come under intense criticism for his steadfast and consistent championing of those same principles, and his famed 'shoe-on-the-other-foot test, ' to those who have been 'canceled' for any number of faults, both real and imagined. Cancel Culture is a defense of due process, free speech, and even-handedness in the application of judgment. It makes the case for restraint and care in decisions about whom and what to cancel, boycott, deplatform, and bar from public life, and offers recommendations for when, why, and to what degree these steps may be appropriate, as long as objective, fair-minded criteria can be determined and met. While Dershowitz argues against the worst excesses of cancel culture--the rush to judgment and the devastating results it can have on those who may be innocent, the power of social media to effect punishment without a thorough examination of evidence, the idea that historical events can be viewed through the same lens as actions in the present day--he also acknowledges that its defenders ostensibly try to use it to create meaningful, positive change, and notes that canceling may itself be a constitutionally protected form of free speech. In the end, Cancel Culture represents an icon in the defense of free speech and due process reckoning with the greatest challenge and threat to these rights since the rise of McCarthyism. It is essential reading for anyone interested in or concerned about cancel culture, its effects on our society, and its significance in a greater historical and political context."--Publisher's description
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  • Canceling freedom of speech for thee, but not for me! -- Canceling due process and weaponizing criminal "justice" -- Cancel culture court -- The effect of cancel culture rewriting history and reality -- Canceling meritocracy -- Cancel culture cancels Israel -- Canceling anti-semitism in Black Lives Matter platform -- Canceling the Bible, which commands personal justice, not the double standard of "identity justice" -- Canceling evidence, science, and the Constitution: arguments against vaccines -- Canceling elections -- Could a president cancel due process by declaring martial law? -- What it feels like to be falsely canceled
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  • eng
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  • non fiction
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  • 155 pages, 24 cm
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  • 9781510764903
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