Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
by vertex-four on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @04:17PM
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Certainly enabling them. On the other hand, preventing the Government from disallowing them from free speech might be worth that.
That's a different thing from giving them a platform to talk on, though. From a natural rights viewpoint, the KKK should be allowed to say whatever they want, but nobody has to give them a platform to talk on.
Re:The Next Chapter – moot retires from 4chan
by wpietri on Wednesday January 21, 2015 @07:43PM
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I think there's a big difference between defending a principle, which is what the ACLU does, and active support of awfulness. The ACLU is just making sure the government won't stop the KKK from printing leaflets if they want to. The ACLU definitely isn't printing and distributing anything the KKK asks.
When the ACLU spends money defending the KKK's first amendment rights in court, are they enabling the KKK, or merely not stopping them?