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Taming Free Speech w/ Laura Weinrib

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Is the ACLU Selling Out?

The ACLU did not see black rights as part of their struggle for civil liberties. They really thought that their mission was to take care of the labor problem and if they were successful in doing that, the race problem would take care of itself. This all seems to point to this constant conundrum for the ACLU: While the left needs this majoritarian state to protect worker power,. The left is often in the minority and persecuted.

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