Saturday, August 19, 2017

Leftist Criticism of ACLU

This leftist UCLA law student, writing in the New York Times, thinks that the ACLU should move beyond its "bright line" rule that protects free speech for everyone and into a position that protects free speech for the left.

Doesn't it occur to her that the government - from state houses to the White House - is controlled by Republicans and she is essentially advocating giving Republicans the power to define "hate speech."

Because when I look at the political world, the biggest source of hate I see is on the left, including people like her.

And I suspect most other Americans agree, particularly after the last year.

I oppose giving censorship power to Donald Trump for the same reason I oppose giving it to her, which is the same reason I oppose giving that power to any government on Earth.


Posted by Peter Sean at 8:51 AM
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Because when I look at the political world, the biggest source of hate I see is on the left, including people like her. And I suspect most other Americans agree, particularly after the last year."

It is amazing and saddening to me that you can't see that more people voted for "the left" in last years presidential election than voted for "the right," and that most of those people on "the left" feel about "the right" the exact same way you described your feeling for them above.

That leaves us nowhere.

10:55 AM
Anonymous said...

The ACLU has no "censorship power." They are an NGO who can freely decide when to take the government to court. I seriously doubt the "peckerwood" faction within the Republican Party has much to fear from the Republican Party itself. And if they do, the courts are as freely available to "peckerwoods" as they are to the ACLU.

However, I agree with the notion that the ACLU should continue to be a more effective organization should it continue to internally uphold its bright line rule with respect to free speech. Interestingly, I think they made the right decision this week to move towards refusing to represent organizations that bring violence or the threat of violence (carry guns) to protest events and other political rallies.

11:56 AM
Peter Sean said...

Anonymous 1 -

Apparently, you've been skipping over the news of leftists rioting in the streets, assaulting people going to Trump rallies, assaulting speakers on campuses, and calling everyone marginally to their right "nazis" and "racists."

Which is weird because whenever I post those stories, you harumph and minimalize and excuse the left.

You are hermetically sealed in your bubble of confirmation.

Not much I can do for you.

Anonymous 2:

Who said that the ACLU had "censorship power"?

As for the decision not to represent organizations that bring violence to protest events, we should hope that this includes Antifa and Communists.

If it doesn't, then they have fallen into being another leftist advocacy group, which is the direction they've been heading for years.

3:44 PM

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