The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) launched in April of 2024. FAIR is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity. Our pro-human values and the issues we work on mirror those of the national organization. If you would like to explore these issues in depth we invite you to subscribe to FAIR’s substack. If you are located in the area, please sign up to become a member. We have an online community; we do outreach, advocacy, and educational campaigns; and we hold in-person meetups.
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FAIR network attorney, Lauren Janov summarized the status of the ethnic studies mandate in a recent op-ed published in the journal EdSource. When the California legislature passed AB101, the bill mandating that high schools offer an ethnic studies course starting in Fall 2025, they added a hugely consequential sentence —
Renowned economist and social theorist Thomas Sowell challenges the foundational assumptions of the modern “social justice” movement. With clarity and empirical rigor, Sowell critiques the idea that disparities in outcomes are evidence of systemic bias, injustice, and oppression. Instead, he explores how assumptions, rather than hard evidence, are the drivers
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