They're the mirror image of the "push poll" surveys I get from conservative groups. The amount of junkmail I get trying to ensure I'm outraged enough to open my wallet, from both sides, is entirely absurd. I guess that's what I deserve for subscribing to a range of magazines instead of plugging into the online outrage engines.

But they still go to bat for people you probably don’t like https://www.acluva.org/en/news/why-we-represented-alt-right-...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/05/opinion/303creative-first...

> Writing in the Wall Street Journal on June 20, Kaminer notes that a recent internal ACLU memo on “case-selection guidelines” explicitly says that the cases the organization takes up may be influenced by “the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values.” As Kaminer notes, “factors like the potential effect of the speech on ‘marginalized communities’ and even on ‘the ACLU’s credibility’ could militate against taking a case.”

I very much doubt the current ACLU would entertain another Skokie case:

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

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/06/us/aclu-free-speech.html

Basically, the ACLU used to be very focused on supporting the first amendment, and recently has shifted more to supporting progressive causes, even when they conflict with the first amendment.

Here's a question I like to ask people who aren't.

Which member of your family would you give the power to tell you what you can't say. Pick one. Once you pick, you can't change your mind. For the rest of your life you have to only say what they let you.

They got a political rally in support of keeping civil war statues shut down by the government.

Their attorney stated that "Stopping the circulation of [Abigail Shrier's] book and these ideas is 100% a hill I will die on."

They applauded students and professors blocking reporters from documenting a protest.

They filed a brief in support of disciplining teachers for using the wrong pronouns.

They say they now consider various factors in whether or not to defend speech, including "the extent to which the speech may assist in advancing the goals of white supremacists or others whose views are contrary to our values".

The only thing similar to that in the article is the Charlottesville protests, which the ACLU defended.

https://www.aclu.org/other/freedom-expression-aclu-position-...