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I'd say white nationalists and the like have more than enough representation these days. They don't need the ACLU wasting limited resources when they've already got the support of the Whitehouse.

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Slippery slopes are real.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came_...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox_of_tolerance

I had already read it and didn't see anything compelling. Basically it says its hard to maintain a tolerant cohesive society with intolerant nincompoops running around.

We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

    > We have intolerant groups on both sides of many issues. Are we going to censor all of them?

Who did you have in mind?

Abortion, Gun Rights and Religious Freedom are low hanging fruit. To my mind, as a nation we are becoming less tolerant rather than more tolerant across the board. One of the reasons I have largely disconnected from Social Media.

"First they came for the Nazis"? Really?

After hearing ICE agents unironically saying how "they're just following orders", I'm really not surprised people can let themselves think like this.

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