We need more of Richard Stallman, not less

Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by tekla on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:15AM (#36390187)

Nope diversity for diversity sake is how we get shit like the ACLU losing its focus on civil rights issues, and instead going for dumb hot button takes that contradict its mission.

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by krger on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:47AM (#36390462)

>how we get shit like the ACLU losing its focus on civil rights issues, and instead going for dumb hot button takes that contradict its mission

[Citation needed]

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by tekla on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:52AM (#36390509)

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

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by krger on Monday June 19, 2023 @08:59AM (#36390558)

An excellent article that shows that these intramural fights are nothing new:

>The A.C.L.U. has in fact often gloried in its internal contentions. It split over decisions to represent the Nazis in the 1930s, the Ku Klux Klan in the 1960s, and the Nazis in the 1970s. After Skokie, a leader of the left-wing National Lawyers Guild complained of its “poisonous evenhandedness.”

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Re:We need more of Richard Stallman, not less by zackees on Monday June 19, 2023 @09:33AM (#36390914)

The ACLU just came out to defend a pedophile murderer who stabbed a 14 year old girl 18 times then had sex with her corpse, then went on to kill a 30 something woman. He was set to be put to death (which went through yesterday or the day before) and the ACLU came out and said his civil rights had been violated because the state did not give him a sex change.

The psychologist said he was faking it (and schizophrenia) but that didn’t matter to the ACLU.

Totally disgusting.

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