{"id":67204,"date":"2018-06-22T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-22T16:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67204"},"modified":"2018-06-21T22:07:23","modified_gmt":"2018-06-22T03:07:23","slug":"the-manhattan-civil-liberties-privileges-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=67204","title":{"rendered":"The Manhattan Civil <strike>Liberties<\/strike> Privileges Union"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ACLU doesn&#8217;t\u00a0<em>quite\u00a0<\/em>make it official &#8211; but leaked memos show that the former civil liberties and current &#8220;civil liberties&#8221; group <a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/21\/aclu-leaked-memo-free-speech\/amp\">doesn&#8217;t really fuss with actual freedom much anymore<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The American Civil Liberties Union will weigh its interest in protecting the First Amendment against its other commitments to social justice, racial equality, and women&#8217;s rights, given the possibility that offensive speech might undermine ACLU goals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our defense of speech may have a greater or lesser harmful impact on the equality and justice work to which we are also committed,&#8221; wrote ACLU staffers in a confidential\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/public\/resources\/documents\/20180621ACLU.pdf?mod=article_inline\">memo<\/a>\u00a0obtained by former board member Wendy Kaminer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Hearing it from the proverbial horse&#8217;s mouth is really just making it offiicial-ish; it&#8217;s been pretty obvious for decades, on some issues (most notably the Second Amendment).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ACLU doesn&#8217;t\u00a0quite\u00a0make it official &#8211; but leaked memos show that the former civil liberties and current &#8220;civil liberties&#8221; group doesn&#8217;t really fuss with actual freedom much anymore: The American Civil Liberties Union will weigh its interest in protecting the First Amendment against its other commitments to social justice, racial equality, and women&#8217;s rights, given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67204","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67204"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67205,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67204\/revisions\/67205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}