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Libraries throughout the US and Canada have been abdicating their responsibilities to uphold viewpoint neutrality and curate collections that reflect diversity of thought. Sometimes libraries have even terminated staff members and leaders simply for advocating for viewpoint diversity.
Help FAIR stand for library neutrality by donating to our Library Neutrality Fund.
Throughout history, thinkers from ancient Greece to China have practiced the art of contemplating different perspectives, in order to gain a more comprehensive view. Meanwhile, in America today, we can hardly engage with different perspectives, let alone integrate them. Our viewpoint diversity has become a weakness, rather than a strength.
In this spirit, Faces of X is a series of short videos that integrate different perspectives on divisive social issues — like capitalism, gender, and race.
First, each video steel-mans different perspectives on the issue. (Steel-manning articulates the strongest version of a perspective, as opposed to straw-manning which articulates the weakest.) Then — in the triad of thesis, anti-thesis, and synthesis — each video attempts to integrate the steel-man perspectives into a synthesis view. A synthesis then becomes a new thesis in our evolving understanding of reality.
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