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by ad_hominem 1513 days ago
If you want to let the ACLU "speak for themselves" here they are arguing against vaccine mandates while Trump was President: https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/coronavirus-imm...

Under Biden, they switched course: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/02/opinion/covid-vaccine-man...

And you're flat-out lying about the mask mandates, they're suing schools who want to make them *optional*: https://twitter.com/acluva/status/1494327778203901952

You can stuff any amount of authoritarian "bullshit" as you put it under LGBTQA+MAP territory, using "equity" as a vanguardist spearpoint, which is what the ACLU is doing. Can you honestly say the ACLU that once defended KKK members is the same organization today? One of its former directors, Ira Glasser, thinks it's not the same, and I think most people have enough common sense to agree.

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> LGBTQA+MAP

Excuse me, why are you conflating gay people and pedophiles?

It is, fortunately, a very niche view, but some organizations are indeed pushing for pedophiles to be included in the LGBTQ+. One recently controversial example is Prostasia. Another, from the UK back in the 1970s, is the Paedophile Information Exchange (PIE). These groups, and others, have been trying to latch on to the gay rights movement for a long time.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/maps-pride-flag/

As usual, people will repeat this sort of thing when it serves their agenda.