Worst Instincts: Cowardice, Conformity, and the ACLU
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 080704430X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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Laird M. Wilcox said 49 Year ACLU Member Likes This Book Laird M. Wilcox I first joined the ACLU in 1960 as a college student and have been a member 90% of the time since then. Nevertheless, the organization has wandered from its principled early devotion to freedom of expression, due process and the rights of individuals.To some extent the group has been taken over by its clients: feminists, racial interests, gays, pornographers and religion haters. The people who used to be coming to us for help and now running the show, and mostly looking after people ju. 9 Year ACLU Member Likes This Book. I first joined the ACLU in 1960 as a college student and have been a member 90% of the time since then. Nevertheless, the organization has wandered from its principled early devotion to freedom of expression, due process and the rights of individuals.To some extent the group has been taken over by its clients: feminists, racial interests, gays, pornographers and religion haters. The people who used to be coming to us for help and now running the show, and mostly looking after people ju. A Must Read Wendy Kaminer was a member of the board of the ACLU of Massachusetts from the early 1990s to 2009. She was a national board member of the ACLU from 1999 to 2006. In this book she "focuses on the story, or cautionary tale, of what I regard a a dramatic ethical decline at the ACLU, involving the institutionalization of deceit and abandonment of core civil-liberties principles by staff and leadership--enabled by the use of social pressure to silence dissent." Kaminer shows how the ACLU ha. Pointless attack on a great American organization This book was terrible. The author seems to have some kind of ax to grind with the ACLU, but she makes mountains from molehills. Nobody agrees with the ACLU all of the time, but they are still very necessary and relevant and in the best American tradition of trying to defend the Bill of Rights.
When an organization committed to free speech succumbs to pressure to suppress internal criticism and disregard or "spin" the truth, it offers important lessons for other associations, corporations, and governments. 2, The Problem with Partisanship, note 2. Wendy Kaminer, a renowned advocate of civil liberties, calls on her experience as a dissident member of the American Civil Liberties Union national board to tell an inside story of dramatic ethical decline that has much to teach us about the land mines of groupthink.Note from the AuthorCh. This book is not a comprehensive expose of ACLU controversies, (which would be too tedious for me to write or you to read,) and the Beacon Press archive only documents this book; but my colleagues and I have been in the process of making a comprehensive record available in another publicly accessible archive.From the Trade Paperback edition.
She lives in Boston.From the Trade Paperback edition.. Wendy Kaminer is the author of many books, including Free for All: Defending Liberty in America Today; I’m Dysfunctional, You’re Dysfunctional: The Recovery Movement and Other Self-Help Fashions; and Sleeping wit
(June)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Kaminer describes herself as a œdissident member of the board, and revisits her many battles with Romero and his supporters as she fought their refusal to challenge the government's terrorist watch lists or aid Guantánamo Bay detainees—as less financially stable groups spearheaded the cause. Kaminer admits that she œcan't claim objectivity, and she is least effective when she allows herself too much leeway on this point, for example, psychoanalyzing those she disagrees with or peppering her wr