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[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I hope so. It's a very strange environment for free speech right now. ACLU type liberals, who historically have defended even the right of the KKK to march, are now promoting censorship, and it's now the conservatives defending it, it's all very strange to me.

[–]panel30 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

ACLU type liberals, who historically have defended even the right of the KKK to march

I didn't know this, wow. That's certainly very different from what some people have been doing lately. That's how democracy was supposed to work, right, everyone gets to be informed and make their own decision? It's nice to know it seems strange to others too.

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Yes, its a huge departure.

"The ACLU defended free speech regardless of the opinions being espoused. For example, the reactionary, anti-Catholic, anti-black Ku Klux Klan (KKK) was a frequent target of ACLU efforts, but the ACLU defended the KKK's right to hold meetings in 1923." [110]

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