“You know, being black doesn’t give you a license to call people racist any more than being Jewish gives you license to call people anti-Semitic.”

—  Alan M. Dershowitz

Fox & Friends Weekend, Aug 6, 2017, responding to Congresswoman Maxine Waters

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