“The lawsuit involved here, were it to succeed, would strike at the heart of freedom of speech,” the American Civil Liberties Union website still says today, 23 years later.
“The case is based on a shocking murder,” they admit. “But the lawsuit says the crime is the responsibility not of those who committed the murder, but of someone who posted vile material on the Internet.”
Once upon a time the ACLU had principles: “The principle is as simple as it is central to true freedom of speech: those who do wrong are responsible for what they do; those who speak about it are not.”
Get that? According to the ACLU, Americans are free to use she/her pronouns for Chase Strangio without being accused of ‘harm.’ Because words are not harm. So all of you good readers who have been banned, censored, canceled, shunned, unemployed, or otherwise harmed personally or professionally for thoughtcrimes about Pride or gender: you stand hereby absolved of sin.
Whenevermore you are accused of ‘transphobic harm’…
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