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Protecting civil liberties generally means defending unsympathetic characters. They always are chosen first, and they must be defended before the precedent is s
by emiliobumachar 7y ago
Protecting civil liberties generally means defending unsympathetic characters. They always are chosen first, and they must be defended before the precedent is set. By the time encroachers move on to sympathetic characters, it's too late. The encroachment has been normalized, it is in fact normal, and the liberty was lost already.
That's not my original thought, but I can't find the original quote. I think it's from the ACLU, from some occasion when Jewish lawyers were defending free speech of neonazis or something.
- crankylinuxuser 7y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am... Is the case you're looking for. On its face, ACLU defended Neonazis. A deeper reading is that the ACLU defended the first amendment's rights of speech and of peacably assemble and redress grievances. History: Skokie was a destination for many Jewish peoples who came from the death camps in Germany in WWII. Choosing this site for the march was intentional. However, the march wasn't actually done.