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My initial reaction to reading about Barr makes me want to agree with you. However, I really haven't looked into him too much - tbh I only really know about him
by cassalian 7y ago
My initial reaction to reading about Barr makes me want to agree with you. However, I really haven't looked into him too much - tbh I only really know about him from popping up in HN articles (where he is always cast in a negative light). Any chance you have some links relevant to his history of violating civil rights, etc? Would love to be able to read through them to form a stronger opinion myself.
- Nasrudith 7y agoACLU is one here listing many of his outright struck down ones including sticking Haitain asylum seekers in Gitmo indefinitely. And that is restricted to the obscenities that the courts have called out instead of accepting as the norm. https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/william-barr-has-long-history-abusing-civil-rights-and-liberties-name https://www.aclu.org/blog/national-security/william-barr-has... My personal philosophy is civil rights are not up for a debate or vote. Normalizing them is itself a form of damage that mere politeness can never justify.
- cassalian 7y agoThank you for the link! ^_^ It looks like Barr has been pushing pretty extreme views for longer than I've been alive :/ I can definitely see why you would use the word fascist to describe him
- objectivetruth 7y agoThere's no need for us to provide links: you can read any mainstream news articles about his work -- either recent ones from the past few months, or archived articles from his tenure in earlier administrations -- to get the gist. Actually, you can read pretty much any article about him NOT published in The Federalist and get the gist.