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[quote=Anonymous]This part is crazy......

"A lawyer representing the ACLU, Ken Margolis, said during a legal proceeding last year that it was irrelevant whether Oh bore no racist ill will. All that mattered, he said, was that her Black colleagues were offended and injured."

So, if an employee is "offended," that is all that matters???  
This is a ridiculous bar.

And, this part is so, so true.......

"But to critics of the ACLU, Oh’s case is a sign of how far the group has strayed from its core mission — defending free speech — and has instead aligned itself with a progressive politics that is intensely focused on identity.

“Much of our work today,” as it explains on its website, “is focused on equality for people of color, women, gay and transgender people, prisoners, immigrants, and people with disabilities.”

And since the beginning of the Trump administration, the organization has taken up partisan causes it might have avoided in the past, like running an advertisement to support Stacey Abrams’ 2018 campaign for governor of Georgia.

“They radically expanded and raised so much more money — hundreds of millions of dollars — from leftist donors who were desperate to push back on the scary excesses of the Trump administration,” said Lara Bazelon a law professor at the University of San Francisco who has been critical of the ACLU. “And they hired people with a lot of extremely strong views about race and workplace rules. And in the process, they themselves veered into a place of excess.”

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