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[–] JandroDelSol@lemmy.world 6 points 11 hours ago

did ACLU auto correct to "a cult" for you?

[–] UberKitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 15 hours ago

a cult of lawyers fighting for many US rights? okay.

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 28 points 23 hours 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 10 hours ago (1 children)

Nothing. It is was a bad joke.

[–] OldSageRick@lemmy.zip 4 points 10 hours ago

Fair enough

[–] dexa_scantron@lemmy.world 24 points 22 hours 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 22 hours ago (1 children)

Can somebody first tell me what aclu is

[–] TheDoozer@lemmy.world 15 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] ignotum@lemmy.world 10 points 22 hours ago

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

[–] Shadow_Glider@piefed.blahaj.zone 6 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They defended the KKK in court as "free speech"

[–] fonix232@fedia.io 33 points 19 hours ago

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

[–] theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world 31 points 20 hours 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 16 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

[–] sad_detective_man@sopuli.xyz 14 points 23 hours ago

I was told that this would get me paid by George Soros