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I used to support the ACLU personally and financially but the leadership took a decidedly left turn at some point, and lost its neutrality. The shift to the lef
by Simulacra 6y ago
I used to support the ACLU personally and financially but the leadership took a decidedly left turn at some point, and lost its neutrality. The shift to the left has been so great that it's hard to tell if their motives are one-sidedly political.
- dmitrygr 6y agoI cancelled my monthly automatic donation to them a few years back in 2018, when this happened [1]. I started those donations when I was 18 (15-ish years ago), because I read about this [2]. Having come to this country from a place where speech could get you jailed, it was glorious to support a fight to keep speech free - to me it is what made America magical. Sad to watch them (and the country) fall so far on this important topic... [1] https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-expression-1529533065 https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-aclu-retreats-from-free-exp... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_America_v._Village_of_Skokie https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Socialist_Party_of_Am...