# "ACORN did absolutely nothing wrong" no longer true **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [April 6, 2011, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-no-longer-true/577467 "2011-04-06T23:23:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 181
**Author:** ![Bosstone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/22d042/32.png) [@Bosstone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosstone)\ **Post date:** [April 7, 2011, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-no-longer-true/577467/181 "2011-04-07T14:52:10Z")
Posting this reply in this thread rather than continue the hijack in the Trump thread: > [@Donald Trump is now a birther](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/donald-trump-is-now-a-birther/575044/207): > > Obviously, I disagree. > > The refusal to admit that ACORN committed even the slightest **illegal** act is the position that is void of honesty, intellectual or otherwise. My position is that they did, and further that their punishment for whatever minor offenses they committed was completely disproportionate to those offenses. > > YOUR position seems to be in lock-step with **Diogenes** : no, no, no, ACORN cannot and would not do anything even slightly **wrong**. > > I am confident that the vast majority of people reading our respective positions would conclude that I’m on much more solid ground here. Your position only makes sense if you assume illegal and wrong are de facto synonymous, which is a more imprecise use of language than I’d expect from you. I’d certainly expect you to split as many semantic hairs as possible when defending something. I’ll readily agree ACORN did something illegal by the laws of Nevada. Was it _wrong_, though? That’s a wholly separate question. I’ll agree it was certainly stupid of them to break a law they didn’t have to break, and incentivizing workers by paying them per registration turned in was equally dumb, but I have a hard time calling it _wrong_. Just needlessly stupid. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/acorn-did-absolutely-nothing-wrong-no-longer-true/577467)._