Decent media about a poor media outlet choice: an in-depth article about FAIR (Foundation Against Intolerance & Racism…by the left, of course), an anti-woke organization Bari Weiss helped start where things got rocky when the guy who ran the place turned out to be insufficiently committed to conservative culture war grievances
Featuring Harlan Crow! (Bartning here is the guy who was running FAIR)
Then, as people & donors lose confidence in Bartning both because of his governance of FAIR and because it became much more in vogue for conservatives to just shout the transphobia out loud instead of laundering their stuff through milquetoast organizations like his, Weiss and allies stage a coup:
In the end, they achieve a settlement whereby it seems like the coup plotters win:
The new Bartning is Maud Maron, a former public defender who was called racist by some of her colleagues at the Legal Aid Society for writing critically about a New York City Department of Education anti-bias training session. Weiss trusts and admires Maron, whose story she has written about. On Twitter, Maron isn’t shy about her opinions. She seems to care deeply about gender issues: “Trans activists and allies need to grapple honestly with what a violent movement it has become,” she wrote in March, shortly before she publicly accepted the job at FAIR. I asked her whether FAIR will continue to be a “pro-human” organization moving forward. She told me the organization is still evolving.
Cable news is next to worthless, but on rolling coverage days it’s not that much worse for following developments than twitter, but I can’t take the commercials, it’s nothing but ads for cancer medicines. Like good grief, id rather watch gold scam commercials.
