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0 pointspianom4n5y ago0 comments

As an individual, absolutely.

As an organization with a purpose (among others) to defend all legal speech, no. Their credibility is completely undermined.

As a very bad analogy, let's pretend the ACLU also explicitly expressed the belief that all drug use is bad and immoral (even legal drugs). Do you think they could credibly claim to equally defend people's rights in drug cases? Do you think they could avoid internal bias when choosing which cases to defend?

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krastanov5y ago

Yes. The answer is trivial if you look up their history and it goes against your claims.

Here is one recent extreme example https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/aclu-em-defends-kkks-rig...

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