“The ACLU is not defending white supremacist groups but instead is defending a principle – one that it must defend if it is going to be successful in defending free speech rights for people you support.”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.comTagged: ACLU, Charottesville, Free Speech
“It’s easy to be dismissive of this serious aspect of the debate if you’re some white American or non-Muslim American whose free speech is very unlikely to be depicted as ‘material support for Terrorism’ or otherwise criminalized. But if you’re someone who cares about the free speech attacks on radic…”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.comTagged: ACLU, Charottesville, Free Speech
“The ACLU is primarily a legal organization. That means they defend people’s rights in court, under principles of law. One of the governing tools of courts is precedent: the application of prior rulings to current cases. If the ACLU allows the state to suppress the free speech rights of white nationa…”— Glenn Greenwald, theintercept.comTagged: ACLU, Charottesville, Free Speech