The board started out with a mere 31 members, but now has 39 and it has consistently added right-wingers to the board, in spite of Christopher Rufo's lie that the organization represents all points on the political spectrum.
But before we review the new board there's headline news in FAIR world.
To the surprise of nobody paying attention to the legalistic ambitions of FAIR, a member of the board of advisors, Maud Maron, has instigated a lawsuit against the Legal Aid Society for calling her a racist. The Society calls the suit "...a frivolous and misguided attempt to use litigation to harass a nonprofit employer and its employees who have spent their careers advancing social justice causes."
The New Yorker did a profile of Christopher Rufo, the Koch-funded Trump supporter, called How a Conservative Activist Invented the Conflict Over Critical Race Theory. From the article:
As Rufo eventually came to see it, conservatives engaged in the culture war had been fighting against the same progressive racial ideology since late in the Obama years, without ever being able to describe it effectively. “We’ve needed new language for these issues,” Rufo told me, when I first wrote to him, late in May. “ ‘Political correctness’ is a dated term and, more importantly, doesn’t apply anymore. It’s not that elites are enforcing a set of manners and cultural limits, they’re seeking to reengineer the foundation of human psychology and social institutions through the new politics of race, It’s much more invasive than mere ‘correctness,’ which is a mechanism of social control, but not the heart of what’s happening. The other frames are wrong, too: ‘cancel culture’ is a vacuous term and doesn’t translate into a political program; ‘woke’ is a good epithet, but it’s too broad, too terminal, too easily brushed aside. ‘Critical race theory’ is the perfect villain,” Rufo wrote.
Absolutely cynical, which is what anybody who knows anything about this pack of grifters, race pseudo-science promoters and Trump supporters would expect.
Meanwhile, Megyn Kelly was in the news recently for attempting to downplay the January 6 insurrection:
Conservative journalist and pundit Megyn Kelly is downplaying the seriousness of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, saying national media covering the insurrection that day made the incident out to be worse than it actually was.
"A faction turned," Kelly said during a recent episode of her podcast of the people who gathered in Washington, D.C., to protest the congressional certification of President Biden's Electoral College victory. "But there's no question the media represented this as so much worse than it actually was."
Kelly is the perfect representative of the FAIR board of advisors: conservative and full of shit.
So there are four new members of the board, since last check-in and all four are what you'd expect: right-wingers and "critical race theory" grifters: Yiatlin Chu, Angel Eduardo, Zander Keig and Alan Charles Kors. More details about each below.
FAIR seems to be the Intellectual Dark Web 2.0, with an anti-critical race theory agenda in perfect harmony with the Republican Party.1. Michael Ajouz - Republican, donated to Romney and Ted Cruz.
2. Ayyan Hirsi Ali - right-wing anti-Muslim and on the Koch payroll via the American Enterprise Institute. Named member of the Intellectual Dark Web.
3. Peter Boghossian - recently attacked Pinkerite's founder, has the possible distinction of appearing as a guest more than anybody else on racist Stephan Molyneux's show. Quillette author. Business partner of Christian nationalist right-wing extremist Michael O'Fallon.
4. Liang-Fang Chao - "Computer Scientist" - Critical Race Theory alarmist grifter.
5. Melissa Chen - Quillette supporter. Writer for conservative The Spectator, Managing Director of Ideas Beyond Borders, which has, on its board of directors - inevitably - Steven Pinker.
6. Yiatlin Chu [new] - Critical Race Theory alarmist grifter and pal of Maud Maron.
7. Daryl Davis -
8. Angel Eduardo [new] - fan of free speech grifters, promoter of "cancel culture" panic, published in Areo, Quillette's twin sister. Anti Critical Race Theory.
9. Lisa Feldsher - runs a PR firm with many corporate clients. Fake liberal.
10. Niall Ferguson - husband of Ayaan Hirsi Ali and right-wing creep, who was involved in a controversy in which he targeted a liberal student, as discussed by Krugman in 2018. Employee of Koch through AEI.
11. Kmele Foster - right-wing, anti Black Lives Matter, on the advisory council of the Koch-funded FIRE.
12. Tim van Gelder - "entrepreneur, philosopher" and fan of right-wing, Koch-funded free speech grifter Andrew Doyle, a former member of the FAIR board of advisors
13. Samantha Harris - contributor at the Federalist Society, Senior Fellow at the Koch-funded FIRE. Connected to Maud Maron somehow. Author at Quillette. Lawyer of Joshua T. Katz, member of the Academic Freedom Alliance.
14. Jason D. Hill - self-declared conservative, Ayn Rand fan and author at the far-right Federalist. Fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center, founded by right-wing extremist David Horowitz.
15. Nathan Hoffman - Republican operative working against the public school system.
16. Coleman Hughes - Koch employee via City Journal, Quillette author, apologist for race science.
17. Inaya Folarin Iman - Founder and Director of anti-Black Lives Matter The Equiano Project and along with right-wing IDW member Douglas Murray is a director the Free Speech Union, founded by eugenics fan and Quillette editor Toby Young.
18. Zaid Jilani - former left-winger and author at Quillette.
19. Zander Keig [new] - Conservative.
20. Megyn Kelly - known for saying Santa Claus and Jesus were white when she was a star at Fox.
21. Alan Charles Kors [new] - co-founder of the Koch-funded FIRE.
22. Alexander Lloyd - fan of Quillette and members of the IDW, Bitcoin bro.
23. Glenn Loury - right-wing, Quillette author, Koch-funded.
24. Maud Maron - called a racist by the Black Attorneys of Legal Aid, then sued them for it.
25. John McWhorter - author at Quillette, supported by Koch via AEI and City Journal.
26. Douglas Murray - named member of the IDW and according to Wikipedia: His views and ideology have been linked to far-right political ideologies by a number of academic[10]and journalistic[11] sources. He has also been accused of promoting far-right conspiracy theories,[12][13][14] and of being Islamophobic.[15]
27. Steven Pinker. Of course.
28. Robert Pondescio - author at The Federalist, fan of the work of Charles Murray, senior fellow and vice president for external affairs at right-wing think tank Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Senior fellow of the Koch-funded AEI.
29. Wilfred Reilly - conservative author at far-right Regnery Publishing - founder William H. Regnery died recently.
30. Ian Rowe - Koch employee via AEI.
31. Christopher Rufo - rabidly pro-Trump, Koch employee via City Journal. Rufo does not have a byline in Quillette, but predictably, Quillette adores him.
32. Michael Shermer - named member of the Intellectual Dark Web, doesn't believe systemic racism exists, critical race theory alarmist and creep.
33. Abigail Shrier - Quillette author, rabidly anti-trans.
34. Erec Smith - Quillette author and co-founder of right-wing organization Free Black Thought along with Charles Murray apologist Michael DC Bowen and Jason Littlefield, author at Quillette's twin Areo and opponent of critical race theory. Fun fact: Smith, Littlefield and Zander Keig are all in business together in an organization called Empowered Pathways.
35. Eli Steele - Quillette author, Koch employee via City Journal.
36. Andrew Sullivan - right-winger, promoted The Bell Curve, race science promoter.
37. Bari Weiss - right-winger, promoter of the Intellectual Dark Web and pals with same.
38. Thomas Chatterton Williams - chateau bouncer, Koch employee via AEI
39. Kenny Xu - Development Officer at Young America's Foundation a right-wing youth organization. Author at the Federalist and the Daily Signal. Trump supporter.
