Maggie's Farm

Re: The ACLU’s Conversion to Wokeness

Commentary Magazine is becoming more and more like The Onion. The ACLU gave up a long time ago. They no longer have any interest in civil rights. Look at how badly the criminal justice system abuses people; trumped-up charges, terrible legal representation, no right to a speedy trial, very high court costs; the list goes on and on. But the ACLU is working toward bigger things! It can no longer be bothered with the problems of the common man. When a government wishes to promote the legitimacy of an illegitimate concept, it does so by choosing an illegitimate opponent. It's sort of a false flag operation. Look at this quote:

"This week, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a lawsuit against Betsy DeVos and the U.S. Department of Education alleging that the new guidelines for Title IX enforcement would undermine students’ civil rights and “inflict significant harm” on students who file complaints of harassment or assault. (So "guidelines" are now "laws" which must be legally obeyed.) Specifically, the lawsuit argues that DeVos’ new rules violate the Administrative Procedure Act, which outlines the way federal agencies may create and issue regulations such as requirements for notices of proposed new rules and public comments). (Federal agencies are allowed to make regulations without public oversight.) For those who have been following the Title IX rule-making process, it is ironic to see the ACLU appeal to procedure. DeVos’ rules, which followed traditional rule-making guidelines, (Traditional rule making guidelines have been around for a long time; so they have historical authority) were a response to the Obama administration’s significant overreach in a 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter—a letter that deliberately subverted the rule-making procedures the ACLU is now accusing the Department of Education under DeVos of violating. (Subverting bureaucratic rule making is a crime!) "More recently, in 2018, former ACLU board member Wendy Kaminer wrote in the Wall Street Journal about the backlash the organization suffered for defending the rights of white supremacists to assemble for a rally in Charlottesville, Virginia after that rally led to the tragic death of a young woman who was run over by one of the white supremacists." (If the ACLU defended white people, it would be a disaster. White people don't deserve any civil rights.)