Agreed, they have significantly changed over even just the last few years. It makes me a little sad, because we have plenty of progressive advocacy groups, and I appreciated the ACLU trying to be more focused.
...are they working on the EARN IT act by any chance?
I'd say they are definitely where they need to be.. It's prudent and wise they not be involved with rabble rousers who through their non compliance, indifference, and questioning of authority silently slaughter members of minority communities that this disease adversely affects more than wealthy elites who miss their bed bath and beyond or their tee time.
The LGBTQ+ community are basically ordinary people from all walks of life, including prominent names like Tim Cook and Pete Buttigieg. The community has I believe explicit public support from culture generating machines like Hollywood and political entities like the Democrat party. These aren't exactly wilting lilies in terms of power and influence.
It isn't obvious that supporting their liberties should take precedence over supporting anyone else's.
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Of course, that's very much a nontrivial issue even among progressive circles. Your view is far from consensual.
Why do we have girls' teams at all?
Isn't it sexist?
Like, I don't know, saying "You cannot compete with men, go play dolls"?
At present, that is frequently trans people. Often trans kids.
Important for who, may I ask? Aren't there many groups fighting for that?
How many groups are working to promote civil rights?
The reality is clear. Civil leadership has been consolidated into the ranks of middle management and ad executives. Modern civil activism is pay-by-mail, one-newsletter-at-a-time, simply install and forget.
If you find yourself frustrated with the leadership of the civil groups you maintain, consider splintering you and those in your groups who trust you into a new civil group which focuses on a local level: Local canvasing could be far more effective than distributing online propaganda.
I tend to believe that, but are you aware of any studies that try to show that?
https://www.aclu.org/other/aclu-history-taking-stand-free-sp...
That was a classically apt appearance because no doubt a hypothetical Nazi state would ban the ACLU.
I've been personally torn about this myself. I got chewed out once by a professor for advocating that people turn out to oppose David Horowitz. My opinion was that his speech was foul and needed obvious opposition, but I didn't want him shouted down. I thought that his schtick of going to universities promoting "academic freedom" which basically meant being able to tell liberal professors to shut up was dreck. However, he was shouted down and couldn't be heard. I felt bad about that, and agreed with the professor in the end. But, in a way, the dude was getting a taste of his own medicine: he certainly advocated for deplatforming people himself.