The Purpose of Fair Is to Have a Place for People to Come Together

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The purpose of fair is to have a place for people to come together, who who believe in in a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity. A so that's, that's really the genesis affair. And and barry, how a dew a connecteds, or how did gise jointly decide to found this organization? I've been really concerned about the illiberal ideology thatas taken over so many institutions in american life which are meant to uphold the liberal order.

Shermer, Weiss, and Bartning discuss: why we need the Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism (FAIR) when we have the ACLU, the SPLC, etc.; Richard Dawkins canceled by the AHA; hate speech as violence; Liberal and Conservative attitudes toward free speech and how they shifted; private vs. public speech; government censorship vs. cancel culture; anti-Semitism on the Left and the Right; QAnon; Israel and the BDS movement (Boycott, Divestments, Sanctions); What happened at The New York Times?; why free speech is foundational to other rights; and why we need to judge people based on the content of their character and not the color of their skin (or any other immutable characteristic).