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The ACLU has gone to shit over the years by skip 06/22/2016, 10:26pm PDT
fabio wrote:

Nope. Never mention it.


They've been taken over by identitarians and it really shows. When the Thomas Jefferson Center released their list of "Muzzles", a lot of college campuses made the list. What has the ACLU done? Jack fucking shit.

The next day, when MU’s student body vice president suggested on national television that the exercise of First Amendment rights creates a hostile and unsafe learning environment, the ACLU of Missouri remained silent. . . .

The same pattern repeated itself in Connecticut during the same month. When Yale University student protesters interrupted a free speech symposium on campus, and spat on attendees trying to leave the venue, the ACLU of Connecticut remained silent.

In the vacuum created by such deafening silence, the rudderless ACLU chapter at Wesleyan University signed on to a list of student demands that included “an anonymous student reporting system for cases of bias, including microaggressions, perpetrated by faculty and staff.” The demands supported by the Wesleyan ACLU chapter also called for the “revision of … professor evaluations to include a section dedicated for reporting … microaggressions … perpetrated by instructors.”


The Cato institute isn't the most unbiased of sources but even the former president has said the organization has lost its way. It doesn't even consider freedom of speech a fundamental freedom anymore for fundraising purposes, won't protest antidefamation laws about religion, and will celebrate SCOTUS justices who have fundamental different views (how hard is it to say "It's great there's more diversity in SCOTUS but her viewpoints are restrictive by our definition") I just don't see this ACLU defending the rights of Neo-Nazis, the KKK, or Westboro Baptist Church. They might not even defend Iraqi war protesters anymore if they thought it would affect fundraising.

I wish the ACLU had stayed focused on freedom of speech and assembly instead of widening their net to "civil liberties". Just like SPLC and Amnesty International, widening their scope has put pressure to increase fundraising, watered down their message, and they're now just another vehicle for progressive politicking and bitching.
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    Trust in meeeee... trust in meeeee... NT by The LEFT 05/31/2016, 8:25pm PDT NEW
        Political Kaarectness NT by kaarection (I baloo it) 05/31/2016, 11:03pm PDT NEW
    Why do we have to respect body dysmorphic disorder? by just curious 06/01/2016, 1:32am PDT NEW
        Why does this matter to anyone? oh right because it's more unnecessary laws by Worm 06/02/2016, 2:27pm PDT NEW
            Please note by laudablepuss 06/02/2016, 2:34pm PDT NEW
                I really don't know anything about that, obviously. by Worm 06/07/2016, 4:36pm PDT NEW
                    State controlled bathrooms vs outlaw commodes NT by THE TOILET WARS 06/07/2016, 7:04pm PDT NEW
                        Next up: by State controlled bathrooms 06/13/2016, 11:16am PDT NEW
        These people need therapy, not surgery. NT by Oom Shnibble 06/04/2016, 2:56am PDT NEW
            It's much more complicated than that. by Professor Mischief 06/04/2016, 5:45am PDT NEW
                That's interesting by Entropy Stew 06/04/2016, 8:52am PDT NEW
                    Oh no, I only meant that as one example. by Mischief Maker 06/04/2016, 10:53am PDT NEW
                You could of just said "Hermaphrodites are a thing" by Mike Williams of USGamer.net 06/07/2016, 10:02pm PDT NEW
                You're telling me she has a cock? I don't believe you. NT by Mysterio Lollerson 06/07/2016, 10:48pm PDT NEW
                    Don't scroll down! DON'T SCROLL DOWN!!! NT by Mischief Maker 06/12/2016, 5:50pm PDT NEW
    Because the law is actually about stopping any locals raising their minimum wage NT by Roop 06/01/2016, 8:02pm PDT NEW
        You'd think the ACLU would be presenting it like this by fabio 06/01/2016, 11:09pm PDT NEW
            The ACLU has gone to shit over the years by skip 06/22/2016, 10:26pm PDT NEW
                Their newsletter is what made me stop donating by Bill from Hoboken 06/23/2016, 12:13am PDT NEW
                    I'm really hoping this is just a temporary direction by skip 06/23/2016, 2:49pm PDT NEW
                        Re: I'm really hoping this is just a temporary direction by Bill from Hoboken 06/23/2016, 4:03pm PDT NEW
                            also not on their list by Bill from Hoboken 06/23/2016, 4:16pm PDT NEW
                Speaking of which by MUH WAGE GAP! 07/05/2016, 4:47pm PDT NEW
                    No one can doubt their ability to pick the wrong battles by skip 07/07/2016, 10:25am PDT NEW
                        Yeah if they're going to expand into rights of labor by Bill from Hoboken 07/09/2016, 7:30pm PDT NEW
                        Post here about how awful universities have become by Bill from Hoboken 08/31/2016, 4:30am PDT NEW
                            "Vice President for Diversity and Inclusion" by Bill from Hoboken 09/01/2016, 11:26pm PDT NEW
                                Transgender bathrooms?!!!!!! *SPLOOOOOOOOGE* NT by ACLU 09/02/2016, 12:02am PDT NEW
        Ohio just did this too by skip 12/10/2016, 7:52pm PST NEW
    Using the correct bathroom is only a commercial problem by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/05/2016, 2:38pm PDT NEW
        Authentic TDARCOS weighs in on the by Kobayashi Maru of the TOILET WARZ 09/05/2016, 6:32pm PDT NEW
 
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