How do we know they were any different in the 1960s? The same media who sings their praises now was singing them in the 1960s, with more gatekeeping and less competition and citizen journalism than today.
Oh they were the same type people that want to enforce their ideology on everybody else, but back then there were actually some things that were unfair and systemic.
For instance in 1970s Trump housing was renting to blacks as required by law, but what the suit was actually about was taking in indigent welfare recipients who couldn't afford to rent and then not letting them be evicted. For example the other housing guy consented to renting to people where rent was 90%+ of their income. Those suits were never about race, always about warping society to their views.
1960s ACLU: American Civil Liberties Union
2000s ACLU: Anti-Civil Liberties Union
They thought they were so sneaky by keeping the same acronym, maybe we should refer to them as A-CLU to make it clear which one we're talking about.
How do we know they were any different in the 1960s? The same media who sings their praises now was singing them in the 1960s, with more gatekeeping and less competition and citizen journalism than today.
Oh they were the same type people that want to enforce their ideology on everybody else, but back then there were actually some things that were unfair and systemic.
For instance in 1970s Trump housing was renting to blacks as required by law, but what the suit was actually about was taking in indigent welfare recipients who couldn't afford to rent and then not letting them be evicted. For example the other housing guy consented to renting to people where rent was 90%+ of their income. Those suits were never about race, always about warping society to their views.
Oh you mean, it was once again about class, which has always been the most important struggle and not race.
Wish the modern left could understand that!
In 1978, the ACLU defended literal neo-Nazis in court that wanted to march through a Chicago suburb where many Holocaust survivors lived.
Now they explicitly refuse to help defend the 1st Amendment if anyone in the group uses their 2nd.
Sounds like a "when I am weak I ask for freedom because that is according to your principles" situation.
How does that precedent help us against for example the FBI arresting people for "election interference" for posing memes on twitter?