{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "P.S. the reason the ACLU defended those Nazis marching through Skokie is the ACLU was founded circa the First Red Scare as a...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/648608271766372352/", "html": "<p>P.S. the reason the ACLU defended those Nazis marching through Skokie is the ACLU was founded circa the First Red Scare as a disclaimably &ldquo;fellow-traveling&rdquo; force and it was really about generating precedent to protect establishment-disliked <i>communist</i> marches, but by picking clients they made &ldquo;these Jewish lawyers are protecting Nazis for their own Communist ends&rdquo; sound silly even where it was true</p><p>(Like how efforts to legally protect memberships of Northern liberal-appreciated civil rights organizations in the South from state inquiry was ultimately about establishing a precedent for <i>communist</i> groups)</p>"}