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Re:Welcome, ACLU by AsyncAwait on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:22AM (#13531905)
The ACLU tends to not pick political sides.
Re:Welcome, ACLU by monochromatic on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:58AM (#13532442)
It only looks that way from an extreme-left perspective.
Re:Welcome, ACLU by kafkaesq on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @03:24PM (#13534851)
It only looks that way from an extreme-left perspective.

Which only appears to be "extreme left" if you're coming from a, well... (nevermind) perspective.

The point is, yeah, everyone has a perspective (and yes, biases). Which is a good thing, by and large.

Re:Welcome, ACLU by AsyncAwait on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:03PM (#13532525)
So what "extreme left" positions does the ACLU endorse?
Re:Welcome, ACLU by monochromatic on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:30PM (#13532886)
I didn't say they were extreme left. I said they only look moderate/apolitical from an extreme-left perspective.
Re:Welcome, ACLU by int_19h on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @05:57PM (#13536226)
It's actually the other way around. ACLU didn't change their positions in any significant way in several decades now. But the parties and their platforms have changed such that the set of rights and liberties that ACLU promotes now has a "liberal bias", in a sense that it coincides more with the Democratic party platform than it does with the Republican party platform.

But what this tells you is that GOP platform is hostile to civil rights, not that ACLU became partisan.

Re:Welcome, ACLU by AsyncAwait on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @12:35PM (#13532919)
Ok, so what positions does the ACLU hold that you would say appear moderate from an extreme left perspective, but actually are not?
Re:Welcome, ACLU by JCzynski on Tuesday January 31, 2017 @11:40AM (#13532164)
This has been decreasingly true in recent years, in fairness. They've still been standing up for the principles of a liberal society consistently, but it's gotten polarized like everything else.