The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression

Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by breakyerself on Thursday June 21, 2018 @04:34AM (#17363185)

I'd say white nationalists and the like have more than enough representation these days. They don't need the ACLU wasting limited resources when they've already got the support of the Whitehouse.

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by chrislynch42 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:05AM (#17364319)

Slippery slopes are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by TheIronYuppie on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:08AM (#17364332)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by chrislynch42 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:21AM (#17364417)

I had already read it and didn't see anything compelling. Basically it says its hard to maintain a tolerant cohesive society with intolerant nincompoops running around.

We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by charlesism on Thursday June 21, 2018 @08:42AM (#17364536)

    > We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

Who did you have in mind?

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by chrislynch42 on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:14AM (#17364753)

Abortion, Gun Rights and Religious Freedom are low hanging fruit. To my mind, as a nation we are becoming less tolerant rather than more tolerant across the board. One of the reasons I have largely disconnected from Social Media.

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by skywhopper on Thursday June 21, 2018 @09:42AM (#17364969)

"First they came for the Nazis"? Really?

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Re:The ACLU Retreats from Free Expression by mkane848 on Friday June 22, 2018 @09:27AM (#17373758)

After hearing ICE agents unironically saying how "they're just following orders", I'm really not surprised people can let themselves think like this.

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