alt Hacker News> They now take sides on what speech should be allowed.
Alternative framing: Given limited resources and lots of things to care about, they pick the specific cases that best improve the freedoms they're interested in protecting.
In the case of the Second Amendment, they decided to let the NRA handle it, as that seems to be working just fine.
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CamperBob2 • yesterday at 4:47 PM
A disingenuous take. The ACLU has actively published anti-2A literature in the past, arguing (as all such arguments must) that only the police, government, and military forces should have access to effective weapons.
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I mean defending horrible shitty people who are exercising their 1st amendment rights.
The ACLU should defend people who suck ass and another group should defend the heroes who beat their ass for saying awful shit.