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ACLU: Defense of free speech may harm our equality and justice work.

In carrying out the ACLU’s commitment to defend freedom of s...
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Put a fork in it
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brindle elastic band property
  06/22/18
Old school, new school, &c.
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  06/22/18
these people defend literal rapists and psychotic murderers,...
appetizing plaza hairy legs
  06/22/18
it will only get MUCH worse from here. these big leftist in...
Red Candlestick Maker
  06/22/18
Thats fine, I want the zealots to takeover these institution...
mint menage feces
  06/22/18
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Indecent bateful hell
  06/24/18
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
Jet-lagged shaky trailer park foreskin
  06/22/18
Every organization has its dark chapters.
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wine vibrant locale
  06/24/18
are they just acknowledging this and saying that they will c...
learning disabled ebony hissy fit
  06/22/18
Give you 1 guess
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according to the document, they are making a loose and unver...
learning disabled ebony hissy fit
  06/22/18
nobody on xo 2018 is literate
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Vermilion trump supporter
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Is there anyone within the ACLU who will push back against t...
mint menage feces
  06/22/18
can you even imagine being some hardcore ACLU exec and disag...
appetizing plaza hairy legs
  06/22/18
Their silence shows that boomer leaders are rotted from with...
mint menage feces
  06/22/18
let's be quite blunt; some of this is because the lecherous ...
galvanic giraffe pistol
  06/22/18
the other jew finally dropped
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  06/22/18
Three potential reads on this: (1) Naive view: True as st...
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misunderstood electric pit
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3, see my other post itt
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Indecent bateful hell
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this is basically an xo clickbait post "haha like and r...
amethyst multi-colored crackhouse
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http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/blog/baldwin.pdf
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ACLU responds, making reference to "lived experience.&q...
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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:30 PM
Author: poppy coldplay fan den

In carrying out the ACLU’s commitment to defend freedom of speech, a number of specific considerations may arise. We emphasize that in keeping with our commitment to advancing free speech for all, these are neutral principles that apply to all speakers, irrespective of the speaker’s particular political views:

. . . .

The impact of the proposed speech and the impact of its suppression: Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed, depending on factors such as the (present and historical) context of the proposed speech; the potential effect on marginalized communities; the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values; and the structural and power inequalities in the community in which the speech will occur.

http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/20180621ACLU.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292503)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:31 PM
Author: Plum Lodge

Put a fork in it

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292516)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:33 PM
Author: Fragrant Dark Kitty French Chef



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292529)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:32 PM
Author: brindle elastic band property



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292524)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:32 PM
Author: Bonkers Vigorous Roast Beef Church

Old school, new school, &c.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292527)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:33 PM
Author: appetizing plaza hairy legs

these people defend literal rapists and psychotic murderers, but not the free speech rights of "white supremacists" - why?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292532)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:34 PM
Author: Red Candlestick Maker

it will only get MUCH worse from here. these big leftist institutions are still largely controlled by boomers, some of whom still have SOME of the old sensibilities about abstract ideals. they are gradually being replaced by gen-x and millennial SJW zealots who are violently opposed to such ideals and think that OPPOSING censorship of things they dislike is a form of naziism.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292537)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:54 PM
Author: mint menage feces

Thats fine, I want the zealots to takeover these institutions so that they will finally collapse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292671)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 9:58 PM
Author: Indecent bateful hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303743)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:37 PM
Author: Jet-lagged shaky trailer park foreskin

https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-speech-skokie

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292553)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 9:26 PM
Author: poppy coldplay fan den

Every organization has its dark chapters.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36294069)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 9:41 PM
Author: wine vibrant locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303649)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:50 PM
Author: learning disabled ebony hissy fit

are they just acknowledging this and saying that they will continue to defend free speech regardless, or going full SJW on us?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292638)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:51 PM
Author: bright drunken rigor stag film

Give you 1 guess

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292643)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: learning disabled ebony hissy fit

according to the document, they are making a loose and unverifiable commitment to the former

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292691)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 10:03 PM
Author: amethyst multi-colored crackhouse

nobody on xo 2018 is literate

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303765)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:52 PM
Author: Vermilion trump supporter



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292653)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:53 PM
Author: mint menage feces

Is there anyone within the ACLU who will push back against this or has the entire organization gone irredeemably shitlib?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292662)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:56 PM
Author: appetizing plaza hairy legs

can you even imagine being some hardcore ACLU exec and disagreeing with any of that in today's climate? They might get killed.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292688)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:57 PM
Author: mint menage feces

Their silence shows that boomer leaders are rotted from within. They are so desperate to keep their salaries and offices that they will let the organizations they are supposed to steward for implode.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292704)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:04 PM
Author: galvanic giraffe pistol

let's be quite blunt; some of this is because the lecherous old boomer perverts who hold power in these organizations are promoting and implementing the favored policies of the young women they are fucking inside of those groups.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292744)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 4:55 PM
Author: Crystalline abusive lettuce dragon

the other jew finally dropped

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292678)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:05 PM
Author: Crystalline abusive lettuce dragon

Three potential reads on this:

(1) Naive view: True as stated. The ACLU is balancing its interests in promoting free speech on the one hand and helping blacks and queers make America worse on the other, and finds that the former has a deleterious effect on the latter. For that reason it will limit its still-cherished mission of free speech (presumably because free speech still has weakly positive instrumental value, as a rule, in ruining society).

(2) Hopeful view: The ACLU had a genuine commitment to the principle of free speech, viewing the principle itself as either sacrosanct in its own right or as the guarantor of freedom. But the ACLU has finally succumbed to moral pressure to renege on that commitment, since free speech can be and is being used against the agenda of the socially vulnerable (or whatever the ACLU calls blacks and queers). This was the inevitable consequence of a shift in liberal values away from a politics of freedom and toward a harm-based morality. It is not formally dropping free speech as a principle to which it is dedicated for reasons of optics.

(3) Other view: Free speech was useful in corroding American society in previous decades. Since it is now being used to defend whatever vestiges remain of culture and tradition, it's time to drop it as a principle worth defending.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292749)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:07 PM
Author: Plum Lodge

3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292761)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:11 PM
Author: mint menage feces



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292778)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:09 PM
Author: misunderstood electric pit

3

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292771)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:10 PM
Author: hairraiser high-end cumskin filthpig

3, see my other post itt

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292775)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 9:40 PM
Author: Indecent bateful hell



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303647)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 10:04 PM
Author: amethyst multi-colored crackhouse

this is basically an xo clickbait post "haha like and reply with your opinion xd"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303766)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:07 PM
Author: hairraiser high-end cumskin filthpig

http://www2.law.ucla.edu/volokh/blog/baldwin.pdf

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292764)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 5:08 PM
Author: misunderstood electric pit

if you dont pray to a picture of the furher before bed every night at this point, you are insane. thats all i have to say about this issue.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36292768)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 11:10 PM
Author: poppy coldplay fan den

ACLU responds, making reference to "lived experience."

"Kaminer objects to any acknowledgement that speech can cause harm. But that is simply a recognition of fact, and denying it flies in the face of LIVED EXPERIENCE and ignores the costs of free speech."

https://reason.com/volokh/2018/06/22/aclus-david-cole-responds-about-aclu-and



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36294510)



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Date: June 22nd, 2018 11:11 PM
Author: Rebellious Meetinghouse

IMORTANT REMINDER: THE COMMUNIST SPLC IS A GENOCIDAL JEWISH TERRORIST GROUP

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36294513)



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Date: June 24th, 2018 9:38 PM
Author: wine vibrant locale



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4008245&forum_id=2#36303635)