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The ACLU is more of a partisan organization aligned with the democrats nowadays. Good or bad, it has been great for their fundraising. (Of course the same has h
by javagram 5y ago
The ACLU is more of a partisan organization aligned with the democrats nowadays. Good or bad, it has been great for their fundraising. (Of course the same has happened to many other groups which have switched to being partisan aligned on one side or another)
EFF and FIRE seem more similar to the “old” ACLU although both have very limited missions.
- dragonwriter 5y ago> The ACLU is more of a partisan organization aligned with the democrats nowadays. In that as the set of political realignments that started with the New Deal, got new direction from the Civil Rights movement and the response to it, and completed around the mid-1990s wound up, the Republicans, who were not consistently so before the realignment, ended up firmly opposed to both core principles of the ACLU and, as a tribal identity marker, the ACLU itseld (heck, even in the 1980s, Republicans used a Democratic candidate being a “card carrying member of the ACLU” as an attack.) The ACLU didn't really go anywhere, the national partisan alignment shifted so that the positions it always held were partisan.
- javagram 5y agoDisagree based on the reporting I’ve read. Actually just saw another reported piece from the NYT pop up on this, but I’ve seen others in the same vein previously which informed my comment. “Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis: An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html