As a part of the FAIR Virtual Film Festival, FAIR Advisor Daryl Davis hosted a Q&A with John Wood Jr., FAIR volunteer Takyrica Kokoszka, and filmmaker and FAIR Advisor Eli Steele. The four discussed the importance of reaching across the political and racial divides to inspire Pro-human nonpartisanship while discussing Eli's film How Jack Became Black. Watch the Q&A here. Register for the last two days of the film festival here. For the Wall Street Journal, Gerard Baker penned an insightful narrative piece in which he reflects on being taught by a Marxist who, despite his own beliefs, offered a wide array of ideological perspectives in the classroom. Baker contrasts this with the stifling of varied viewpoints characteristic of Critical Race Theory (CRT). “I learned economics from a Marxist. But the most important thing he taught me was that open inquiry was the antidote to ruinous extremism. It’s a lesson we may finally be relearning.” Read the full article here. For NY Daily News, Chris Ferguson wrote an op-ed unraveling the disingenuous motte-and-bailey tactics of proponents of CRT. Ferguson brings attention to the fact that it is not just conservatives who are opposed to the employment of race-essentialist pedagogy and curriculum in the classroom, but also centrists and liberals. “My perception is that CRT suffers from several weaknesses that limit it as a teaching foundation. First, it’s not a theory in any scientific sense, as it offers no criteria by which it might be falsified as a scientific theory should. Indeed, CRT proponents often appear largely incurious of data that conflicts with their worldview.” Read the full article here. As the pushback against neo-racism in education garners national attention, many proponents of CRT are claiming that its detractors don’t understand what it is. In Newsweek, Angel Eduardo debunked this fallacy. “Despite its academic origins, critical race theory no longer lives in the university. Nearly every invocation of the term, favorable or not, is now in the zeitgeist.” Read the full article here. For Persuasion, Seth Moskowitz wrote an insightful essay detailing how social media has tainted political discourse and allowed simplistic narratives to spread like wildfire. “In place of a well-reasoned argument, political activists can lean on pithy memes to demonstrate their political allegiances. But when people use memes as a shortcut, they sacrifice the process of testing and inspecting their opinions. Insight comes from challenging ideas, and memes allow people to skirt this process.” Read the full article here. |