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>degradation of our civil liberties, rights...I've donated money to the EFF and ACLU The tough part is that it's hard to find find organizations that still def
by bumby 5y ago
>degradation of our civil liberties, rights...I've donated money to the EFF and ACLU
The tough part is that it's hard to find find organizations that still defend the core principles without caveats. The ACLU used to be a neutral defender of free speech, but now they seem to have lost that.
"The Times reports that at a recent ACLU event, “A law professor argued that the free-speech rights of the far right were not worthy of defense by the ACLU. … [And] an ACLU official said it was perfectly legitimate for his lawyers to decline to defend hate speech.”
Every organization seems to get more polarized and, with that, principles may get sidelined.
https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/558433-the-aclus-civil-war-over-old-values-free-speech-only-for-the-woke https://thehill.com/opinion/civil-rights/558433-the-aclus-ci...
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html
- car_analogy 5y agoThey defended free speech when free speech, as a whole, served to advance their political goals, even if specific instances of it didn't (e.g. KKK rallies). Now that their politics are the norm, the effects of free speech are less clear, and so is the ACLU's defense of it. When I am weaker than you, I ask you for freedom because that is according to your principles; when I am stronger than you, I take away your freedom because that is according to my principles. - Frank Herbert, Children of Dune