FIRE’s Greg Lukianoff, about to release a documentary, Can We Take a Joke? and while participating in a free speech panel at Yale, made a deliberately provocative joke about burning down Indian villages. Then he wrote about the reaction.
Does the ACLU insert themselves into the free speech debate in the same way? My impression is that they watch from the sidelines until they see a need for involvement, but I don’t know if that is correct. Of course, I guess they are always on the look out for test cases.
It seems to me, in at least a few cases, FIRE manufactures a controversy, which is representative of a particular free speech issue. Does ACLU do this as well?
Hunt, is there a difference here?