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Yes, The ACLU Is Capable Of Feeling Shame

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Matt Osborne
Jul 21, 2023
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Beloved feminist icon Ruth Bader Ginsburg “directed the work of the ACLU Women’s Rights Project from its founding in 1972 until her appointment to the federal bench in 1980,” according to the American Civil Liberties Union website.

Ironically, “Ginsburg deliberately chose the ACLU as the vehicle for her legal work, rather than an organization with a narrower women’s rights agenda, in large part because she believed that the ACLU would enhance the credibility of the women’s rights cause.” Today, the ACLU works tirelessly to reduce the credibility of women’s rights as a cause by promoting the rights of men who claim to have inner woman-essence over the real, material interests of actual women.

Ginsberg wrote millions of words in her lifetime, but the ACLU has chosen her most ‘intersectional’ quote: “I wanted to be a part of a general human rights agenda . . . [promoting] the equality of all people and the ability to be free.” Women always take a backseat to the needs of others at the AC…

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