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Lead Data Scientist, activist, survivor. Was actually assaulted by an actual right-wing terrorist. Opinions belong only to me, especially the bad ones. she/they

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    1. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      Emily G Retweeted Waldo Jaquith

      I actually want to talk about this article a bunch because it is exceptionally important.https://twitter.com/waldojaquith/status/1002157697188483072?s=19 …

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      Waldo Jaquith @waldojaquith
      I am heartened that the ACLU has formally adopted a policy doing exactly what I exhorted them to do on August 12: not defend Nazis when doing so is likely to cause people to die. https://www.theguardian.com/news/2018/may/31/how-the-resurgence-of-white-supremacy-in-the-us-sparked-a-war-over-free-speech-aclu-charlottesville … pic.twitter.com/YC7pDIqirb
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    2. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      This has been the big, loud drum free speech advocates have banged for years. And yet, let's actually think about the realities, not the theoreticals.pic.twitter.com/U5l1r73wzy

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    3. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      The thing about that point is I'm not sure it's true at all, even remotely. Are BLM activists currently feeling the same protections given to neo-Nazis? Antifascists? Environmental activists? The answer is a resounding no.

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    4. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      "We can't stop Nazis because if we do they'll go after Black activists!" Black activists: 😐😐😐😐😐

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    5. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      There's a lot of fretting that a thing might happen. Except that thing is already happening at scale, so..... Maybe we ought to rethink our fears about that thing.

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    6. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      We already have laws that specifically protect marginalized populations. Those laws haven't really been distorted to be used against those populations in any broadly meaningful way, although there have been and are currently attempts to do so (e.g. Damore).

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    7. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      Why should we treat speech laws any differently? We shouldn't, but we do, because the country is built on a founding myth, and American free speech concepts are that myth writ large.

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    8. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      Furthermore, the idea that free speech is an antidote to tyrrany is laughable. Look around. ICE. Pipelines. Trump. There's a lot of fucking tyrrany out there, how's speech working out stopping it? We can't even get the New York Times to say the word "lie."

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      Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

      The issue is we've focused on free speech as a concept instead of the thing that free speech was supposed to protect. In this sense, the ACLU is doing *precisely* the thing that they have been warning about.

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        1. Emily G‏Verified account @EmilyGorcenski May 31

          Yeah no shitpic.twitter.com/nhDvzo1coi

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        1. Kevin Binswanger‏ @Anusien May 31
          Replying to @EmilyGorcenski

          People like to claim that free speech eventually takes these people down. For an individual like Milo, that may be true, but they commit extreme amounts of damage in the meanwhile. On the larger scale... if it were true the KKK would be gone by now.

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        2. read_only‏ @Juan_de_Vashon May 31
          Replying to @EmilyGorcenski

          The core problem with the @ACLU is that it has always wanted to cower atop this Olympian summit of "Purity of Intellectual Though" while racists and Nazis and the "Alt-Right" and the "Intellectual Dark Web" have been pissing on the #ACLU's feet and laughing in their face.

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        3. read_only‏ @Juan_de_Vashon May 31
          Replying to @Juan_de_Vashon @EmilyGorcenski @ACLU

          The @ACLU needs to come to terms with the reality that the real world is not their over-intellectualized fantasy. People of color and others have been and are being brutalized by "free speech" in a manner the #ACLU apparently can't even - or deliberately won't - see. Enough.

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        1. B Djojonegoro  🏳️‍🌈‏ @bdjojonegoro May 31
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          B Djojonegoro  🏳️‍🌈 Retweeted Moira Donegan

          Reminds me of this tweet about “formal equality”https://twitter.com/moiradonegan/status/1001927450794844160?s=21 …

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          Moira Donegan @MoiraDonegan
          A lot of badly-written or badly-interpreted civil rights laws are understood as demanding "formal equality"—that is, equality for everyone regardless of differences. This sounds good, but it often means equality regardless of *what side of the difference you are on.*
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        1. GardenOfResistance‏ @GardenResist1 May 31
          Replying to @EmilyGorcenski @summerbrennan

          HATE SPEECH is not free speech. It is the discursive equivalent of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater.

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