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[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Can someone please tell me whats so bad about them, the Wikipedia page doesn't have a controversy section for now and I don't want to read through thousands of twitter posts

[–] miked@piefed.social 9 points 16 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing. It is was a bad joke.

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 4 points 16 hours ago
[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nothing? The ACLU is great. Not sure what OP means here.

Maybe aclu just auto corrected to 'a cult'

[–] Zwiebel@feddit.org 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Can somebody first tell me what aclu is

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

American Civil Liberties Union, and I'm not sure what they're on about.

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

Guessing the annoying orange or someone in his cabinet has called it a cult

[–] Shadow_Glider@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

They defended the KKK in court as "free speech"

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 34 points 1 day ago

You can disagree with how one uses the right of free speech, and defend said right, in the same breath.

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 32 points 1 day ago (1 children)

In court, free speech is free speech, and that's the only position the government should have.

Out of court, FUCK the KKK and whatever they have to say, I'm not listening.

[–] axexrx@lemmy.world 1 points 22 hours ago

"In court, free speech is free speech, and that's the only position the government should have."

In practice this isnt though- every right has to have some limit to prevent abuse. For free speech, there are 2: the fire in a crowded theater scenario, and assault. For instance in my state, assault includes specific threats of violence. (By specific i mean the kkk would unfortunately be free to say 'we should kill all black people,' but 'were going tp burn down t