| >increases civil liberties by protecting our most vulnerable What a bizarre rhetorical maneuver, civil liberties aren't increased by trying to "Protect the most vulnerable", civil liberties are increased by leaving people the fuck alone. You can acknowledge the fact that there's often a tension between individual freedom and public good and try to defend the ACLU by making a case that they chose what they view as (and many others don't share their view) public good, but twisting words to forcibly paint them as liberty defenders when they are doing the exact opposite is just strange. >supported mask mandates in some settings to protect vulnerable children The same children that study after study shows are psychologically damaged and learning-impaired by not seeing their peers' and their teachers' faces[1]. So instead of the few vulnerable children being exempted from school and taught at home or online or in special masked classes, we impose a rule that harms all children and affect, possibly permanently, their psych and development. Good call. >government censorship that the ACLU was fighting No, it isn't government censorship. It's the public deciding what the public schools they fund through taxes can and cannot teach. This is perfectly legal and perfectly moral, teachers are hired and paid salaries to teach what the school says they should teach. Especially when the allegedly "banned" topics are sexually explicit material featuring minors and debunked pseudo-history invented literally a year ago. It isn't censorship when your employer forces you to use or not use a programming language, it's how jobs work. >“fighting to compel speech for teachers” is a bit of a stretch — they were pushing for teachers to use students’ correct pronouns So, they _were_ fighting to compel speech for teachers, but that's a good thing because pronouns? >which is a common courtesy in most settings. No it's not, it's a practice invented 4 to 6 years ago by a minority of delusional individuals living in a very specific place and time, and the vast majority of people in time and space can correctly identify the 3rd person pronoun most suitable for a person on their own and call them by it without any special requests. [1] https://www.npr.org/2022/01/28/1075842341/growing-calls-to-t... |