Admittedly, I'm somewhat of an ignoranous when it comes to the Libertarian movement. I'm not a card-carrying member like you but I would have assumed that you and your like-minded associates cheer the ACLU's defenses of gay marriage, reproductive rights, drug legalization, victims of police abuse, supporting LGBTQ rights as well as exposing government lies and not jailing people for the crime of being poor.
We still do, and did with the ACLU, even as late as 2016.
But the ACLU changed when it's top leadership decided it would
'more selectively support' organizations in the wake of Virigina, and no longer blindly support
'free speech' regardless of viewpoint.
I.e., the ACLU will
not support the rights of Fascists/Nazi's marching today.
As much as we hate the idea, we have to support their right to do so. We're at the point that we're starting to be selective in who has free speech, and who is allowed to be a customer, based on personal views.
Because the problem is ... the ACLU is
not just stopping support of real Facists/Nazis, but anyone who is even labeled such. This includes Kyle Rittenhouse now, who is anything but a white supremicist. But he's being utterly labeled oned, including by the ACLU itself!
KENOSHA, Wis. — The American Civil Liberties Union released the following statement after a jury decided that Kyle Rittenhouse was not guilty of the...
www.aclu.org
So I'm curious to learn what were the issues that turned the ACLU into...(shudder)...'Progressivec' over the past decade. Please help me out on this one.
Although there have been many articles since 2016, here's one of the more recent ones at the New York Times.
An organization that has defended the First Amendment rights of Nazis and the Ku Klux Klan is split by an internal debate over whether supporting progressive causes is more important.
www.nytimes.com
The WSJ pointed out the more
'obviousness of the truth' back in 2018 ... that the ACLU leadership had already changed,
'purged' anyone pointing out things (including what really happened in Virginia -- who stated
all sides were wrong, which was
'too close' to
'what Trump stated'), and then tried to
'explain it away' instead of admitting that they were now a Progressive, not a Civil Rights, organization any more.
The organization declares that speech it doesn’t like can ‘inflict serious harms’ and ‘impede progress.’
www.wsj.com
Just 8-10 years ago, the ACLU was a completely different organiation. It's amazing how new leadership literally destroyed so many decades of being true Liberals. Progressive causes are
'winning out' at the ACLU, and the last, remaining Liberals -- like many did in the US Media by the mid '00s -- are being
'forced out.'
The last bastion of Liberals and Libertarians are in the Judicial System, but most of those Gen-X'ers, and a few Boomers still around, are slowing being replaced by Millennials and, soon, Zoomers that will likely view the 1st Amendment more selectively.
I'd much, much rather have an alleged
'Progressive' Justice like Sotomayor, who still understand the 1st Amendment, than some of these allegedly
'Moderate' Millennials, who do not. Justicis like Sotomayor still support the rights of people she strongly disagrees with.
The ACLU has decided to not only
not support civil rights for those they disagree with, but ... actively demonize and
label those they disagree with, quite
wrongly. It didn't even take 5 years for them to utterly lose their values.
