The legal community needs to stop fetishizing defending Nazi speech until it starts consistently showing up for marginalized folks' speech.
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So why not let the lawfirm of Dirtbag & Fashy LLC handle it? Because the legal community gets off on Nazi shit.
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It allows them to feel like they're making a deeply painful yet morally principled stand.
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Meanwhile, no one is showing up to help trans folks fight insurance denials.
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I have a lot of trouble understanding the ACLU's priorities. You can't prioritize defending everyone's free speech. Why do this?
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My best guess is that they're trying to deflect the "ACLU is leftist" by being assholes.
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I dont think they're leftists....
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Oh no, neither do I. But I think it's a common claim that's lobbed in their direction by conservatives when they disagree with the ACLU.
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In my experience, ACLU fights speech restrictions w/o focusing on impact, while impact matters when deciding to take other types of cases.
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@ACLU defending#British Milo who admits to being at a party where children were raped & didn't report it? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJhHwspZGcg …Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Free speech vs bus ads isn't settled. There's a circuit split right now; good chance of SCOTUS. And ACLU got their own ad banned too.
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ACLU would still be taking this case w/o Milo. He's a hanger-on, not the impetus. They're simply principled enough to include him.
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Could you define what you mean by Nazi? We may have different definitions.
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The thing is though, the Milo thing is REALLY egregious here on WMATA's part. With multiple plaintiffs, there's no reason not to add him.
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Except losing to make a point.
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Which I'm not suggesting is a good thing, but it is the sort of things lawyerly-minded people do. (Scopes)
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The NLG is mostly good about the nazi part and has called out the ACLU before, but idk about this.
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