The ACLU is the American Civil Liberties Union, and the first I’d heard about them was a reference in the 1980 movie, The Blues Brothers. It’s the scene where the American Nazi party is allowed to do a march in Skokie, Illinois (then with a large Jewish population, including many survivors of the Holocaust) and Jake and Ellwood charge their car at the protestors, forcing many to jump off a low bridge into a stream.

The real life event came as a result of the ACLU actually fighting in court for the right of the Nazi party to hold the march. It is considered to be a landmark US case on freedom of speech and freedom of assembly.

Sadly, the ACLU is not that organisation any longer. There have been internal documents in recent years where they have hedged on defending the US Bill of Rights first amendment, not to mention the 2nd amendment. Clearly, even they’re feeling the pressure of our modern society of Woke.

This was never more obvious than the other day when they decided to “celebrate” former SCOTUS Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s comment on abortion during her 1993 confirmation to the US Supreme Court.

Hmmm…. A “person’s” life”? “Their”?

Here’s the original:

“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity. It is a decision she must make for herself. When Government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”

Maybe they should have just said “chest feeders” or some of the other trans bullshit terminology that’s currently making its way into government department publications and websites across the Western world.

Funnily enough there was a backlash, as there has been to the equally fucked-in-the-head article in the Lancet.

In both cases apologetics (not really apologies) have been issued but at least in the case of the ACLU you know it’s not serious when its executive director, Anthony Romero said this to the NYT:

“[My] colleagues do a fantastic job of trying to understand a reality that people who seek abortions are not only women. That reality exists.”

Then why apologise? Clearly, if you think that, then the logical next step is to be forced to discuss those other people who get abortions. You know the ones: the bodies with vaginas.

A society that has no grip on reality is in for a hell of a shock sooner or later, likely multiple shocks.

Here’s the good news. It was the Lefty side that pushed back on this bullshit as well as conservatives. This may seem like an inconsequential victory in the “gender identity” and “transgender rights” battles, but it’s not. This walk back by the ACLU and the Lancet Medical Journa are strong signals that the tide is changing ever so slowly, and that we shouldn’t give up this fight, despite whatever you might hear from squishy, useless “moderate” Right WIngers about how “culture wars” should be ignored.