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ELI5 Why many people seem to hate the ACLU

I read something on the founder of the ACLU recently and he seemed to be just trying to defend people nobody else would. So why, in modern times, does the group take so much hate from people on both sides? What have they done to cause this?
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It's because the ACLU defends people that nobody else will that they are hated.  It's easy to say you support free speech until a city tries to block a KKK rally.  It's easy to support the right to a fair trial until it involves a terrorist.  It's easy to be for separation of church and state as long as it's somebody else's religion.

Ensuring equal rights for all means that somebody has to fight unpopular fights.  The ACLU does this.