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September 30th, 2021

Civil Rights in Our Schools

And Other News

FAIR Legal Webinar
FAIR Takes Action: The Gateway School
An Interview with FAIR President Bion Bartning and Daryl Davis (NPR)
Does Left-Wing Authoritarianism Exist? (The Atlantic)
Civics Proponents Urge Common Ground Over Ethnic Studies (EdSource)
The Illiberalism in Our Institutions (Persuasion)
Authenticity: Erased & Replaced (Free Black Thought)
Why Doesn’t Rationality Seem To Matter Anymore? (The Harvard Gazette)
The Continental Divide (Harper’s Magazine)
Performative Teaching Undermines Trust (Fordham Institute)
Upcoming Event: Legal Webinar
Upcoming Event: FAIRstory Parent & Educator Curriculum Webinars
Upcoming Event: Grassroots Advocacy Training Workshops
Upcoming Event: FAIR Indiana Discussion with Wilfred Reilly

September 22nd, 2021

The Pro-Human Approach to Education

And Other News

FAIRstory Pro-Human Video Series
A Rabbi’s Guide on Making Amends (The New York Times)
2021 College Free Speech Rankings (FIRE)
The Economy of Victimhood (Free Black Thought)
Can We Cure America’s Tribalism? (The New York Times)
Washington U’s Statement on 9/11 Flag Display
A Psychologist’s Take on Free Speech (Areo)
A Farewell to Cambridge’s Vice-Chancellor (The Spectator)
A Teenager’s Escape From Afghanistan (Honestly)
Getting Your “Of Color” Card Revoked (Derate the Hate)
Upcoming Event: Mental Health Webinar
Upcoming Event: FAIRstory Parent & Educator Curriculum Webinars
Upcoming Event: Grassroots Advocacy Training Workshops
Upcoming Event: FAIR Indiana Discussion with Wilfred Reilly

September 15th, 2021

Taking Action Against Discriminatory Hiring Practices

And Other News

Spokane Public Schools Propose Discriminatory Hiring Practices
How the Pandemic is Changing the Norms of Science (Tablet)
I’m 17. And I’m Immunized from Woke Politics (Bari Weiss’ Common Sense)
Expanding Your Tribe in the New Age of Conformity (Tablet)
Americans’ Approval of Interracial Marriage at All-Time High (The Hill)
Why Afghan Women Are Fighting Back (UnHerd)
Google’s Problematic ‘Antiracism’ Initiative (City Journal)
Staying Silent When You Disagree (Newsweek)
Your Sense of Imminent Doom Is Wrong (The New York Times)
Upcoming Event: FAIR Mental Health Webinar
Upcoming Event: FAIRstory Parent & Educator Curriculum Webinars
Upcoming Event: Grassroots Advocacy Training Workshops

September 8th, 2021

A Pro-Human K-12 Curriculum

And Other News

FAIR Launches K-12 ‘FAIRstory Curriculum’
‘Distance to 100’ for Everyone (Eduwonk)
Politics and Thought Reform in K-12 Education (FIRE)
The New Puritans (The Atlantic)
Free Speech Does Not Equal Violence (FIRE)
Chloe Valdary’s Theory of Enchantment (Luke Burgis’ Substack)
Why I Came to Resent CRT Diversity Training (Counterweight)
‘Wokeness’: From Elite Schools to Everyday Life (The Economist)
My University Sacrificed Ideas for Ideology (Bari Weiss’ Common Sense)
On Matters of Race, Randall Kennedy Demands Thinking Over Feeling (The New York Times)
Black People Who Oppose CRT Are Being Erased (Newsweek)
Stop Celebrating Death (Persuasion)
Upcoming Event: FAIR Mental Health Webinar
Upcoming Event: Grassroots Advocacy Training Workshops
Upcoming Event: Constituting Knowledge, Knowing Truth
Upcoming Event: Growing Diversity of Thought in K-12 Education: Current Challenges and the Path Forward

September 1st, 2021

A Pro-Human Medical Professional Network

And Other News

Introducing FAIR in Medicine
New York’s Private Schools Tackle White Privilege (The New York Times)
The New Plan for ‘Anti-Racism’ (City Journal)
Cecily Myart-Cruz’s Hostile Takeover (Los Angeles Magazine)
Fighting Critical Race Theory in Schools (Areo)
The Liberal Case for Banning Critical Race Theory (The Washington Free Beacon)
MLK’s ‘Dream’ Speech and The Future of Liberalism (Free Black Thought)
Critical Race Capitalism at Verizon (City Journal)
The Neoracists in America (Persuasion)
The Underground Railroad Out of Afghanistan (Bari Weiss’ Common Sense)
Stop Calling Me ‘White’ For Having the Wrong Opinions (Newsweek)
Upcoming Event: FAIR Mental Health Webinar
Upcoming Event: Growing Diversity of Thought in K-12 Education: Current Challenges and the Path Forward

August 25th, 2021

Reclaiming ‘Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion’

And Other News

Introducing FAIR Transparency
A Better Option For Schools Than CRT
Are There Different Ways To Be a ‘Good Patriot’? (Deseret News)
Letting George Orwell Down (The Spectator)
State Bans on Critical Race Theory Won’t Work (The Wall Street Journal)
Teach Respect, Not Critical Race Theory (The Wall Street Journal)
Say No to ‘Anti-Racist’ Racial Segregation in Schools (National Review)
Performative Anti-Racism at the U. of Wisconsin (The New York Times)
How (Not) to Think About Race (Persuasion)
The Assault on Empiricism (Tablet)
A Heartless Betrayal (UnHerd)
Upcoming Event: Growing Diversity of Thought in K-12 Education: Current Challenges and the Path Forward

August 18th, 2021

Connect with The FAIR Community

And Other News

Introducing The FAIR Community Forum
FAIR Advisors Urge Alternative to Race Essentialism
When Therapists Become Activists (Persuasion)
Social Media’s Outrage Machine Has The Biggest Influence on Moderate Groups (Fast Company)
As Race ‘Equity’ Advances in Health Care, Signs of a Chilling Effect on Dissent (RealClear Investigations)
Hearing Diverse Political Perspectives (The Wenatchee World)
Why Open Inquiry Matters (Heterodox Academy)
How ‘Woke’ Became an Insult (The New York Times)
What’s “Systemic” about “Systemic Racism?” (The Glenn Show)
Why We Failed: The American Exit From Afghanistan (Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
The Central Park Bird-watching Incident One Year Later (The Ringer)
Upcoming Event: Growing Diversity of Thought in K-12 Education: Current Challenges and the Path Forward

August 11th, 2021

Segregation Comes to an Atlanta Elementary School

And Other News

Atlanta Mother Files Federal Complaint Over Segregation (Atlanta Black Star)
Oregon Axes High School Graduation Requirements (The Oregonian)
Why It’s OK to Speak Your Mind (Quillette)
The University of California Is Lying to Us (The Atlantic)
How Artists Lost Their Courage (UnHerd)
Challenging the Narrative (AllSides)
Kendi and DiAngelo Don’t Debate People Like Me (It Bears Mentioning)
How to Star-Man | Arguing from Compassion (Center for Inquiry)
Braver Angels Event with Coleman Hughes, Rakim Brooks and John Wood Jr. (Conversations with Coleman)
Debating Glenn Loury (Bad Faith Podcast)

August 4th, 2021

Boston Parent Coalition v. City of Boston

And Other News

Boston Students Redlined Out of Exam Schools
The Glasgow Group
Pursuing ‘Equity’ Over Equality Reveals the Nation’s Moral Regression (The Washington Post)
Robin DiAngelo and the Problem With Anti-racist Self-Help (The Atlantic)
Let’s Talk About CRT (Persuasion)
O.C. Ed Board Forum Panelists Warn of Dangers In Teaching CRT In Schools (LA Times)
Freedom of Speech is Endangered on College Campuses — And I’m Fighting Back (New York Post)
Wrestle Not Against Flesh and Blood (The Journal of Free Black Thought)
Progressives’ New Racialism Isn’t Just Repulsive. It’s Dangerous. (Newsweek)
The Real Story of “The Central Park Karen” (Honestly)

July 28th, 2021

Tara Gustilo v. Hennepin Healthcare

And Other News

Doctor Accused of “Internalized Whiteness” Ousted from Position
Reclaiming Nonviolence in the Age of Antiracism
Democrats Lose Ground on School Equity Plans (POLITICO)
Sartell-St. Stephen School District Told Students to Hide “Equity Survey” From Parents (Alpha News)
The Faith of Systemic Racism (Quillette)
A 21st Century Witch Hunt (Honestly)
Racist Antiracism At The University of California is Back (It Bears Mentioning)
The Erosion of Women’s Rights with Ayaan Hirsi Ali (Conversations with Coleman)
Upcoming Event: Running 100 Miles for FAIR

July 21st, 2021

Our Voices Were Heard

And Other News

U.S. Dept. of Education Rescinds Grant Priorities
White House Makes Moves Towards Censorship
Is CRT the Best Way to Teach History and Racism? (Florida Times-Union)
A Straightforward Primer On CRT (Forbes)
“Let Them Die”
Don’t Apologize (Persuasion)
Answers to 12 Bad Anti-Free Speech Arguments (Areo Magazine)
Unending Struggle (Harper’s Magazine)
Professor John McWhorter (Firing Line)
The Books Are Already Burning (Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
Upcoming Event: Running 100 Miles for FAIR

July 14th, 2021

Maud Maron v. The Legal Aid Society

And Other News

Maud Maron Files Discrimination Lawsuit
A Witch Trial at the Legal Aid Society (Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
Running 100 Miles for FAIR
A PTA Purge of Asians (WSJ)
Governments Have a Right to Ban Critical Race Theory, But It Doesn’t Matter if They Do (Richard Hanania’s Newsletter)
Academy of the Holy Names is too ‘Woke’ (Tampa Bay Times)
Our Endless Dinner With Robin DiAngelo (TK News)
An Inconvenient Minority
What Happened To You? (The Weekly Dish)
Critical Race Theory Is Making Our Heads Explode (The Unspeakable)

July 7th, 2021

The Pro-Human Movement Grows

And Other News

Welcoming New Board of Advisors Members
A Pro-Human Alternative to CRT
Oliver v. Arnold
The Problem With “White Privilege” Discourse (Arc Digital)
Word Misappropriation (Katherine Brodsky’s Random Mind)
The Excesses of Antiracist Education (NYT)
We Disagree on a Lot of Things. Except the Danger of Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws. (NYT)
Even “Trigger Warning” Is Now Off Limits (The Atlantic)
The American Dream is Real. I’m Living Proof (Center for Inquiry)
Why Winston Marshall Left Mumford & Sons (Honestly)

June 30th, 2021

The Pro-Human Answer to Intolerance & Racism

And Other News

How To Be Pro-Human
Lawsuit Filed Against Evanston School District
‘How Can You Hate Me When You Don’t Even Know Me?’ (NYT)
Why I’m Leaving Mumford & Sons (Medium)
The Eternally Radical Idea (FIRE)
A Teacher Pushes Back Against K-12 Critical Race Theory Indoctrination (The Washington Post)
Everyone’s Talking About CRT. But for how long? (The Washington Post)
Do CRT Advocates Want Real Education or Ideological Indoctrination? (NY Daily News)
What CRT Critics Are Actually Criticizing (Newsweek)
When a Free Society Becomes a Police State (Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
It Is Just Hype to Call Electism a Religion? (It Bears Mentioning)
The Free Speech Crisis Runs Deeper Than You Think (Areo Magazine)
Christopher Rufo on CRT (The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast)

June 23rd, 2021

A Victory for Free Speech

And Other News

Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Students Free Speech Rights
More Lawsuits Filed Against Federal Farm Debt Relief Plan
Inspiring Pro-human nonpartisanship
CRT Is the Opposite of Education (WSJ)
What’s Wrong With Critical Race Theory and Its Cousins (NY Daily News)
Stop Telling Critical Race Theory’s Critics We Don’t Know What It Is (Newsweek)
Against Meme Activism (Persuasion)
Sorry, Harvard, fathers still matter — including Black fathers (USA Today)
Don’t Ban CRT. Expose It. (The Weekly Dish)
Preventing Public Schools From Promoting CRT Isn’t an Attack on Free Speech (Inquire)
Amy Chua on Tribalism in America (The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast)
Event: America’s Public Forum: Race, Rights, and Black America

June 16th, 2021

Student Speaks Up for Pro-human Values

And Other News

Dwight-Englewood Student Speaks Up
Pro-Human Alternatives to CRT
Loving Day Recap
Faust v. Vilsack Update
IT IS OBSCENE: A TRUE REFLECTION IN THREE PARTS (Chimamanda.com)
How Anti-Racist Activism Affects Interracial Couples Like Us (Newsweek)
Stanford therapists allege ‘hostile climate’ for Jews in the workplace (The Jewish News of Northern California)
Don’t Let the Backlash Against Critical Race Theory Become a Victim of Its Own Success (Commentary Magazine)
The Problem With Dropping Standards in the Name of Racial Equity (The Atlantic)
REVISITING CLASSICS AT PRINCETON (It Bears Mentioning)
How to Have Impossible Conversations (The James Altucher Show)
Zaid Jilani and Andy Ngo on COVID Truth and Censorship, Antifa’s Tactics, and Failings of the Corporate Media (The Megyn Kelly Show)
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival

June 9th, 2021

Teachers Speak Up for Pro-human Values

And Other News

Couple Reminds Us Why We Celebrate Loving Day
Teacher Resigns From Dwight-Englewood
Transparency in California’s Ethnic Studies
What Happens When Doctors Can’t Tell the Truth?(Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
Once a Bastion of Free Speech, the A.C.L.U. Faces an Identity Crisis (The New York Times)
Free Speech and Why It Matters (Reason)
America’s Cultural Revolution (Honestly)
Diversity—Unless You’re Asian (City Journal)
Megyn Kelly on Sexual Harassment in the Workplace (The Ayaan Hirsi Ali Podcast)
Straight Talk on Racism with Wilfred Reilly (Conversations with Coleman)
Event: Loving Day Celebrations
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival

June 2nd, 2021

Remembering Our Right to Be Human

And Other News

Celebrating Loving Day
Learning from the Tulsa Massacre
Court of Appeals Finds COVID-19 Aid Program Discriminatory
Lived Experiences Aren’t Special (Quillette)
Princeton Classics Dept. Removes Greek, Latin as Course Requirement (The College Post)
Free Speech, Civil Rights and the Moral Imperative of Persuasion (Areo Magazine)
Removing The Bedrock Of Liberalism (The Weekly Dish)
Should Public Schools Ban Critical Race Theory? (Common Sense With Bari Weiss)
Critical Race Theory and School Curriculum (C-SPAN)
The Media’s COVID Failure (Persuasion)
Glenn Loury on The Rubin Report
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival
Event: Prey: Immigration, Islam, and the Erosion of Women’s Rights at thee Hoover Institute
Event: DEI Programs with Heterodox Academy

May 26th, 2021

Suing for Equality Under the Law

And Other News

Judge Finds COVID-19 Aid Program Discriminatory
Beliefs Aren’t Facts (Persuasion)
Rutgers Law Student Bar Association Rescinds Critical Race Theory Requirement (FIRE)
What My Soviet Life Has Taught Me About Censorship and Why It Makes Us Dumb (Areo Magazine)
Chicago Mayor Sparks Backlash After Limiting Media Interviews to People of Color (The Hill)
Suit Alleging Admissions Discrimination Moves Forward in VA (Washington Post)
Race, Community, Silence
Red, White, and Black: Rescuing American History from Revisionists and Race Hustlers
Testimony: On Creating an Opportunity Society and Upward Mobility for People of all Races
Woke Racism How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America
Bari Weiss & Bion Bartning on FAIR
Event: Loving Day Celebration
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival

May 19th, 2021

Parents Speak Up, School Calls the Police

And Other News

Parents Rally for Pro-Human Education
FAIR Comment on Department of Education Priorities
Anti-Semitism on the Rise
Meeting in the middle on religious and LGBTQ rights (Deseret News)
America Is Flunking Math (Persuasion)
St. John’s professor allegedly fired for reading racial slur from Mark Twain book (New York Post)
I saw tribalism rip a country apart — and now it’s happening in America (New York Post)
Safeguarding Freedom of Speech Will Require an Active Approach (Areo Magazine)
Balance & Perspective on Race | John McWhorter and John Wood Jr.
To Be Young and Pessimistic in America (Wall Street Journal)
Anti-Racism and Anti-Semitism Collide: Glenn Loury in Conversation with Bari Weiss
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival

May 12th, 2021

U.S. Dept. of Education to Promote Critical Race Theory

And Other News

It’s Time to Take Action
Critical Race Theory Legislation
The Soft Bigotry of Low Expectations
When Teachers Become Activists (NY Daily News)
How Anti-Racism Is Derailing Efforts to Improve Education (The Dispatch)
Critical Race Theory and the ‘Hyper-White’ Jew (Sapir)
Black People Are Far More Powerful Than Critical Race Theory Preaches (Newsweek)
John McWhorter on “Black Fragility” (Real Time with Bill Maher)
What’s Race Got to Do With It? (Persuasion)
Event: FAIR Virtual Film Festival
Event: Cancel Culture Through a Jewish Lens with Bari Weiss
Event: Pleasure, Power, And Profanity: John McWhorter and Jeffrey Goldberg

May 5th, 2021

Parents Say “No” to CRT in Schools

And Other News

A Local Election Speaks Volumes
FAIR Makes National News (ABC News)
Paul Rossi Continues Speaking Out
In the Name of Equity, California Will Discourage Students Who Are Gifted at Math (Reason)
How Students Are Furthering Academe’s Corporatization (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
Nadia Gill details the capabilities of filmmakers to tell the stories of people unlike themselves (Persuasion)
What is Systemic Racism? Glenn Loury, Kmele Foster, John McWhorter, and Kenny Xu essays (Common Sense with Bari Weiss)
Erec Smith: Free Black Thought: A Manifesto (Persuasion)
Melissa Chen on Fighting Wokeness at Home and Radicalism Abroad (Reason)
John McWhorter on Cursing, Anti-Racism, and Why ‘We Need to Stop Being So Afraid’ (Reason)

April 28th, 2021

Riverdale’s Tom Taylor Pens “Whiteness” Manifesto

And Other News

Do Black People Enjoy Being Told They Are Weak and Dumb? The Elect Hope So. (It Bears Mentioning by John McWhorter)
Woke wars at New York’s elite schools (fees $50,000) (The Times)
10 Principles for Opposing Thought Reform in K-12 (FIRE)
Inside the growing underground network of parents fighting ‘anti-racism’ in NYC schools (New York Post)
Race and the Coming Liberal Crackup (New York Times)
Howard University’s removal of classics is a spiritual catastrophe (Washington Post)
The Cancer of Critical Race Theory (The American Spectator)
Paul Rossi on Critical Race Theory and Anti-Racist Teachings “Demonizing” Kids at his School (The Megyn Kelly Show)

April 21st, 2021

Paul Rossi Stands His Ground