[criddell]

Try steelmanning some of the ACLU positions you disagree with and see if your position softens or changes.

[syshum]

It does not. the ACLU policy shift can be best described as a shift from the defense of individual rights to defense of group or collective rights.

I am ardent supporter of individual rights.

This is largely also the difference between the EU/Canda and the US. where the US has traditionally and correctly placed the most importance on individual rights. Where as the EU places the focus more on society in general or groups in society over the individual

[zozbot234]

> I am ardent supporter of individual rights.

The smallest, most oppressed minority of them all is the individual. Individual rights are minority rights.