Speech restrictions are like poison gas. They seem like they’re a great weapon when you’ve got your target in sight. But then the wind shifts.

• Ira Glasser, ACLU Executive Director, 1978-2001

The ACLU would not take the Skokie case today
Ira Glasser says the organisation he once led has retreated from the fight for free speech.

I used to donate time and $$ to the ACLU but they are straying into social rights more than civil liberties. The whole basis of civil liberties is the right of any individual to do with their body, mind, and voice what they want unencumbered. To even attempt from a top down approach to mandate some sort of ancient to modern justice against today's citizens in such a manner as to force them to pay for someone else's crimes is the opposite of justice. It's indiscriminate punishment that lacks reason or mercy. Even during the height of slavery there were non-slave owners who laid down their own life to make another, a stranger free. They are not accounted for and their sacrifice has been ignored to appease a political position.

You've all lost your minds.

It means exactly what you think it means. Unless you openly question it, and only then is it you who misunderstood what it meant.

When Coca-Cola tells its employees, "Try to be less white," it means exactly what you think it means, right up until the press questioned them on it, at which point it's been "taken out of context."

I am NOT an identitarian. Meaning, even though I am white and am male, I do not identify as a member of the "white" group or the "male" group, because I think the idea of my "groups" dictating what I'm supposed to believe and do and think is utter balderdash. For better or for worse, I am a demographic of ONE.

But even I see that the mob wants blood. And eventually the people in charge are going to give it to them.

Pretty sure it involves being killed in your shop and the shop torched. As long as the people doing it hold the violence to under 3% of daily activities we should be fine with it.