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April 3, 2024 - Dennis Prager Show
05:59
ACLU Doesn't Respect Free Speech
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Here's a story in the New York Times of all places.
I was surprised to read about it in the New York Times.
I'm going to read to you extensively because I want you to hear what is going on with free speech at the ACLU. The ACLU was founded for free speech.
That was the greatest liberty.
I wonder if you folks can hear the thunder here.
You might be able.
I don't know.
Can it be heard?
I don't know.
Interesting.
There is a major storm coming into Nashville.
I mean, some say even a tornado.
So, that's pretty serious thunder.
If I could hear it in this building.
So, listen to this.
The ACLU said a worker for the ACLU... Kate O, O-H, that's her last name, Kate O, was no one's idea of a get-along-to-go-along employee.
During her five years as a lawyer for the ACLU, She was an unsparing critic of her superiors, known for sending long, blistering emails to human resources complaining about what she described as a hostile workplace.
She considered herself a whistleblower, an advocate for other women in the office, drawing unflattering attention to an environment she said was rife with sexism.
Burdened by unmanageable workloads and stymied by a fear-based culture.
Okay.
And now, get ready.
Then the tables turned.
And Ms. O was the one slapped with an accusation of serious misconduct.
The ACLU said her complaints about several superiors, all of whom were black, Used racist stereotypes.
Just get ready till you hear what these racist stereotypes were.
She was fired in May 2022. The ACLU acknowledges that Ms. Oh, who is Korean American, never used any kind of racial slur.
You get that?
They acknowledge that.
But she was still fired.
But the group says, the ACU says that her use of certain phrases and words demonstrated a pattern of willful, anti-black animus.
First example, in one instance, according to court documents, she told a black superior that she was, quote, afraid, unquote, to talk with him.
Now tell me, folks, is that not obviously anti-black racist?
Isn't that obvious to you?
I'll bet it isn't, but it is to the ACLU. I'll explain why as I continue.
In another instance, she told a manager that their conversation was, quote, chastising, unquote.
That's the second example of her using anti-black animus.
Chastising.
And And in a third instance in a meeting she repeated a satirical phrase likening her boss's behavior to suffering beatings.
Beatings is in a quote.
The heart of the ACLU's defense Arguing for an expansive definition of what constitutes racist or racially coded speech has struck some labor and free speech lawyers as peculiar since the organization has traditionally protected the right to free expression.
A lawyer representing the ACLU, Ken Margolis, said during a legal proceeding last year Whether Ms. O bore no racist ill will.
All that mattered, he said, was that her black colleagues were offended and injured.
She caused serious harm to black members of the ACLU community.
This is the age of feelings.
Do you feel bad makes what the other person said either illegal or worthy of having the person who said it fired.
Just as whether you are male or female is dependent upon your feelings.
We have abandoned reason.
Yes.
I regularly mention this.
The Age of Enlightenment, as anti-religious, said reason alone will lead us to a good society.
But it turns out that without God and the Bible, we have abandoned reason.
I believe in reason as much as they do, by the way.
That's why my Bible commentary is called The Rational Bible.
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