ACLU recants tweet featuring white child, agrees it’s racist

In one of the dumber things to have happened this week (and that’s a title that’s increasingly difficult to bestow), the ACLU sent what to most normal people would be a perfectly acceptable tweet.

This one:

But because this is a garbage time to be alive, a handful of individuals thought that the ACLU’s choice of a white child meant the organization was perpetuating racism.

To which the defenders of “civil liberty” which ought to include free speech, then apologized for perpetuating white supremacy:

Black and brown children? Sure. White child? YOU ARE CLEARLY A PROPONENT OF WHITE SUPREMACY.

Harvey come quickly.

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Tags: ACLU, Free Speech, Racism

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