NEVER! I WILL NEVER TAKE BACK what I said. The position of "free speech absolutism" the traditional ACLU position, the "civil liberties" industry would most honestly be expressed in the slogan, "Yeah, let's let it happen again," even as they strike a pose by piously and emptily saying "never again."
Our own history of our indigenous fascist tradition of white supremacy proves not only can it happen here, it has and is happening here and it's again getting worse largely through the "right to lie" and the predictable rise in lying, hate-talk media enabled through the ACLU and its ilk. And this time, as the generation that fought against the Nazis is about all dead, with neo-Nazism in the mix.
I get into a lot of online brawls that expose the thinking of a lot of these people, I've been engaged with some trad-Catholic fascist Latin mass fanatics and it quickly went to the antisemitic phase with them. The same with secular Republican-fascists. One of the reasons I get into brawls with these people is to get them to expose what they really think and intend. It's not reassuring.
"Yeah, Again" is a more honest slogan for free speech absolutism, especially in its most effective aiding of indigenous American fascism, "free press" absolutism. Since Skokie, it should be the slogan of the ACLU.
"People died to defend the First Amendment. . . . "
My parents didn't fight the Nazis in WWII to make America safe for them to get a chance to repeat it here, nor the white supremacists to flourish as they now do under our regime of free speech, free press absolutism. Anyone who would die for the "rights" of Nazis or the KKK or Stalinists or Maoists to get a chance to do it over again would die the most useless death in fighting against those things in the history of self-sacrifice.
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