Twitter blows up on Alan Deshowitz ...

[marble falls]

https://www.huffpost.com/


‘Creepy Dershowitz’ Trends And You Really Don’t Want To Know Why
Alan Dershowitz probably should’ve kept this to himself.

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I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a 16 year old has the constitutional right to have an abortion without state or parental interference, how could she not have the constitutional right to engage in consensual sex? 1/ https://t.co/48Thb8Uaym
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019

I challenge my readers to distinguish the cases, as a matter of constitutional law. I did not suggest that it is moral to have sex with a 16 year old, but rather that the issue presents a constitutional conundrum worthy of discussion. 2/
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/alan-dershowitz-age-of-consent_n_5d3fd799e4b0db8affad7ded

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— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019

I also pointed out that, statutory rape laws are applied quite selectively and often against young teenagers. That’s why I also say there are Romeo and Juliet exceptions. Lets debate not name call. End/
— Alan Dershowitz (@AlanDersh) July 29, 2019



The tweets caused Dershowitz’s name to trend as well as a variation on it: #CreepyDershowitz:

80 year old Alan Dershowitz wants us to know that having sex with 16 year olds should be very legal and cool.
— Molly Jong-Fast (@MollyJongFast) July 30, 2019

Why is @AlanDersh trying to lower the age of consent in this op-ed? 15? Really? https://t.co/K8LyEho50X
— Richard W. Painter (@RWPUSA) July 29, 2019

The right for a minor to obtain abortion w/o parental or state involvement protects her from undue burden — abuse and/or delay/being forced to give birth. This is consistent with idea that the pregnancy resulting from sex to which she could not consent should not be forced on her
— Jennifer Taub (@jentaub) July 30, 2019

Please do not get #CreepyDershowitz to trend.
Do not use this hashtag.
Thank you.
— andy lassner (@andylassner) July 30, 2019

I will definitely not use the #CreepyDershowitz hashtag. Thanks for the warning about the #CreepyDershowitz hashtags.
— The Guy (@theguydf) July 30, 2019

I stand by the constitutional (not moral) argument I offered in my controversial oped: if a person dies, aren’t they technically no longer a person?

On an unrelated note, and I am certainly not guilty of cannibalism, which is clearly defined as “eating people”. 1/
— Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) July 29, 2019

Twitter: Morning, everyone! How’s it g—

Alan Dershowitz: (smashing through the wall at top speed to leave an Alan Dershowitz-shaped hole in the brick) THE CONSTITUTION SAYS IT’S OKAY TO HAVE SEX WITH CHILDREN
— Ken Tremendous (@KenTremendous) July 30, 2019

If I Did It
by Alan Dershowitz https://t.co/ENb2HEPEYo
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) July 29, 2019

come for dershowitz doubling down on his opinion that the age of consent should be lowered to 15, stay for the line when he explains this may be double true for minors “particularly [of] some ethnic groups” pic.twitter.com/9XUthLWg4Z
— LVL 45 CHAOS POTUS (@thetomzone) July 30, 2019

Alan Dershowitz is doin’ legal gymnastics to “legalize” sex with 15 year old girls. Now why would a totally innocent feller need to do such a thing?https://t.co/ocmBnqdgX5
— Tea Pain (@TeaPainUSA) July 30, 2019

Have you lost your damn mind?
— Elie Honig (@eliehonig) July 29, 2019

Narrator: “Yes, yes Dersh has lost his mind and not even @waze can help him locate it.”
— Emily Brandwin (@CIAspygirl) July 30, 2019

That’s a “Constitutional” argument?
I must’ve missed a page of the Constitution.
— Melissa Jo Peltier (@MelissaJPeltier) July 29, 2019

The fuck is the matter with you, #CreepyDershowitz?
— andy lassner (@andylassner) July 30, 2019

I’m REALLY interested as to why you care so much about whether or not 16 year olds can consent.
— Mueller, She Wrote Podcast (@MuellerSheWrote) July 30, 2019

Just say, “I’m a pervert.” It’s much shorter.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 30, 2019

The old “why am I a pedophile if my 16 yr old victim gets to have an abortion” argument.
— Alt Fed Employee (@Alt_FedEmployee) July 30, 2019

You’re gross. Please stop talking. #CreepyDershowitz https://t.co/LbUPcIMvCl
— Shara Godwinson (@sharagodwinson) July 30, 2019

Martha’s Vineyard just hid its daughters
— shauna (@goldengateblond) July 30, 2019

Free legal advice: Log off
— Connor Wroe Southard (@ConnorSouthard) July 29, 2019

[uponit7771]

1. It should he arguing grown folk should be able to have sex with children

[hlthe2b]

2. My favorite from Asha Rangappa:

If I Did It
by Alan Dershowitz

Link to tweet

[marble falls]

4. I know. I think Derxhowitz has lost what was a long time ago a brilliant ...

liberal legal mind, just before he took on defending Klaus von Bulow.

[hlthe2b]

5. He got addicted to and sold out for the "celebrity"... thus OJ and everything downhill every since..

[marble falls]

8. He's the Darth Vader of the movement, wealth and celebrity corrupt.

[colorado_ufo]

16. Agree! Bravo!

[dewsgirl]

3. These Republicans seriously have no shame so they?

[marble falls]

6. No sense of anything at all. He's not doing himself any favors.

[dewsgirl]

10. He has to know something may come out about him, otherwise why would you do this?

I keep thinking about his wife, what must she be thinking? Him defending this, if he is accused of being with underrage girls, at least there was plausible deniability. Unless there is solid proof ie, video/audio.
I don't understand.

[marble falls]

13. I don't either, I think he'd be distancing himself.

[colorado_ufo]

17. Smells like a cornered rat.

[empedocles]

7. If we had to have a really bad 'con type as President - we should be very grateful a trump provides

such a big, getable target.

Very, very, grateful.

[Loki Liesmith]

9. Why is it news that Twitter *does* anything?

“Internet randos shame some creep! News at 11!”

[Tipperary]

11. I know, right? Like it changes anything in the world.

Threads here everyday about how twitter is “clapping back” at rump or one of his spawn. Twitter makes no damn difference to anything anywhere.

[marble falls]

12. Wasn't it enough you didn't have click links? Your description of tweeters ...

describes a DUer or two I know.

[LanternWaste]

23. I'd avoid the actual topic as well if it didn't carry my own flavor of water.

I'd also engage in self-righteous indignation if anyone pointed it out to me and pretend that's not what I'm doing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

39. it's a giant conversation, sometimes even global

Do you prefer one-way news, spoon-fed to you?

I'm not on twitter, but appreciate being able to listen in on significant conversations. DU members are very good at pointing toward such significant conversations.

[kag]

42. Yes!

My perspective too, Hermit.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

41. I don't know. Probably not much. But they should totally get off your lawn... nt

[malaise]

14. The fifteen year old is pregnant because of

scumbags pedophiles and rapists like him.

Go fuck yourself you criminal

[marble falls]

15. He's trying to get a post crime protection, that's certainly how it looks.

[geardaddy]

20. He would fuck himself if he were 15.

[busterbrown]

31. As a Non-Religious Jew..

I find this man absolutely disgusting.. Especially that ugly/phony fucking smile he bounces around with...

[malaise]

32. You know when I read that he was upset that he was no longer

being invited to summer parties I realized that he had a serious sense of self importance.
He really is an entitled creep. People like him disgust me. They think they are all above the law and must never be ostracized for their behavior.

[Paladin]

18. Welcome to the Trump Effect, Dershowitz.

Yet another reputation soiled and flushed down the sewer. Serves you right.

[Hekate]

44. Everything Trump Touches Dies. It continually amazes me how many powerful men ...

...have built prominent careers, all the while committing crimes that flew under the radar of publicity and the law. And then, they come into the orbit of Trump's presidency and it all goes up in stinking flames.

It is defnitely one of Trump's superpowers.

[geardaddy]

19. I love this reply:

Just say, “I’m a pervert.” It’s much shorter.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) July 30, 2019

[Duppers]

22. +10

[not fooled]

21. No one would mistake

dershowitz for Romeo.

[marble falls]

24. 'ceptin' maybe Mrs Alan Dershowitz, at least before he wrote his tweet.

[paleotn]

25. Someone's trying to rationalize past behavior.

He's not stupid. He knows the rock solid legal reasoning behind the right to abortion for someone under the age of consent. He's just worried. Very worried his sins will find him out.

[marble falls]

26. It so smells like it.

[FakeNoose]

27. Is he still "defending" Jeffrey Epstein, or is this his own lame defense?

Asking for a friend.

[judesedit]

28. Why can people die for THEIR country, but not drink or vote like they should be able to do

Tell me that, please.

[marble falls]

33. 18 year olds have the right to vote.

[zentrum]

29. So if she's old enough to get

....help after a rape, then she's old enough to be raped.

That is what he's saying.

Real window into the mind of a predatory sociopath.

[marble falls]

34. Pretzel logic.

[SunSeeker]

37. Well put. That's it exactly.

He's talking from a perp's perspective. Because he is a perp.

[SCantiGOP]

30. At least

We are no longer subjected to this asshole giving Giving cover to Trump on every channel that would give him 5 minutes.

[marble falls]

35. I think he'll get louder and less guarded in his speech.

[moonseller66]

36. Uh, Alan? Would this be ok?

Trump called. Wants to have sex with your 16 year old daughter. Ok with you?

[SCantiGOP]

38. Daughter?

At 16, she could be his great-great granddaughter.

[brush]

40. Consorting with trump and Epstein has apparently damaged his thinking. I mean anyone...

associated with Epstein and sex with minors should steer far and clear of advocating lowering the age of consent, but Dershowitz is arguing for it.

There's some faulty logic going on there, or maybe not in his mind if he's afraid something is about to surface about him at Epstein's parties.

[marble falls]

43. I think he was corrupted by his associations and his supreme confidence in ...

to argue himself out of any pinch. He's gone just one ego-trip too far.