FAIR News: Welcoming Charles Love
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Dear Friends of FAIR,
FAIR is thrilled to announce the newest addition to our Board of Advisors, Charles Love.
Charles Love is a NYC based writer and cultural critic. He is co-host of the Cut the Bull podcast and the author of several books including We Want Equality: How the Fight for Equality Gave Way to Preference and Race Crazy: BLM, 1619, and the Progressive Racism Movement.
Throughout his professional career in the hospitality industry and as a capital construction consultant, he has witnessed the perils of focusing on our differences rather than embracing what unites us.
Love currently serves as the Executive Director of Seeking Educational Excellence (SEE), a non-profit whose mission is to empower disadvantaged students to reach their full potential. Love was recently elected to Manhattan's largest Community Education Council where he advocates for color blind public school policies and curriculum.
Welcome, Charles!
Warmly,
The Team at the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism
News Coverage of Zack De Piero’s Case:
For Inside Higher Ed, Ryan Quinn writes about Zack De Piero’s case, which FAIR is proudly supporting.
“Penn State’s bizarre brand of ‘antiracism,’” the suit says, “condemns qualities like ‘objectivity’ as ‘white supremacy,’ and purports to celebrate people of color for being incapable of objective thought. The common denominator at Penn State and among all defendants is the promotion of pejorative stereotypes on the basis of race, which have created a hostile environment not only for De Piero but for all faculty and students.”
Understanding Gender Modification Laws in Missouri
Watch FAIR’s recent webinar on gender modification laws in Missouri!
Does Implicit Bias Training Help Anyone? With Dr. Chris Ferguson
Watch FAIR in Medicine’s webinar about The Implicit Association Test.
DEI Trends in Education: What’s Happening & How To Respond
What are DEI programs in education intended to achieve? Are they making a positive impact, or are they causing more harm than good? For this webinar, FAIR brought together three panelists who have extensive experience with DEI in educational settings.
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The graphic under the heading "FAIR Educators Alliance & Other Networks" depicts classrooms where the words "diversity," "fairness," "understanding" and "humanity" appear on the blackboard.
I assume and hope that those are key words in FAIR's alternative to the pernicious progressive social programming that has invaded the K-12 curriculum.
In any case, it is imperative that those of us in the majority of Americans who are not progressive do all we can to get progressive social and moral indoctrination out of the classroom. It's tantamount to catechism, only instead of inculcating values and beliefs rooted in scripture today's programming induces young people to accept an entire ideology based on postmodern critical theory and its progeny, critical race theory and queer theory. Many American school children spend a decade or more having the tenets of diversity, equity, inclusion, anti-racism and gender identity drilled into them by their teachers.
Why are we permitting public schools to be the seminaries for the spread of this postmodern secular religion? It's important to understand that educators commonly justify the programming in part on the grounds that, at best, parents are indifferent to social justice and gender ideology and downright racist and transphobic at worst. Hence one purpose of the secular catechism is to replace the parents with the teacher in the parental role of teaching children the Golden Rule and how to apply it in society. This carries with it the risk that the child might conclude that his or her parents are bad people who do not have their best interests at heart. In turn, the teacher may claim to know the child better than his or her parents do. As the woke are fond of saying, It's exhausting!
Now, educators and activists might defend the social justice curriculum on the grounds that it is teaches children to embrace new and different points of view that challenge their preconceptions. A simple test will show whether such an assertion is sincere. Ask your state's superintendent of schools when your children's K-12 teachers plan on introducing them to the central ideas in John McWhorter's "Woke Racism" and Abigail Shrier's "Irreversible Damage" or other similar works. The social-justice and gender-identity industrial complex can and do produce fine elementary-level workbooks that simplify concepts formulated by the likes of Derek Bell and Judith Butler. In that case, it should be child's play for them to come up with materials that foster critical thinking by presenting the other side of the story.
In conclusion, let's show the K-12 social justice ideologues the door and focus instead on teaching the Three Rs, 21st-century style, of course.
Yay! Charles is great!