SendAstronomy t1_j4t80hz wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:16 AM

Reply to comment by Unique-Public-8594 in LAWSUIT: FIRE sues Pennsylvania county after officials ban talking politics in a public park by NeatPeteYeet

Just from their name I can tell they are partisan.

Edit: they fund Turning Point USA's college arm, so yeah, buncha assholes.

Not saying they are or are not wrong in this case. Just pointing out they are a right wing org.

Unique-Public-8594 t1_j4t9wi6 wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:30 AM

Interesting that Wikipedia has it wrong then.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundation_for_Individual_Rights_and_Expression

I get that they are crowd sourced, still, weird.

PoppinFresh420 t1_j4tdvts wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:58 AM

Nothing on that page disagrees with what sendastronomy said.

Unique-Public-8594 t1_j4vu6bo wrote on January 18, 2023 at 4:51 PM

I was reading the typicall collapsed section that includes this statement:

“ The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education was co-founded by Alan Charles Kors and Harvey Silverglate in 1999, who were FIRE's co-directors until 2004.[1] Kors and Silverglate had co-authored a 1998 book opposing censorship at colleges.[2][5] Silverglate had served on the board of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Massachusetts.[1] Kors served as FIRE's first president and chairperson. Its first executive director and, later, CEO, was Thor Halvorssen.[6] It was founded to be non-ideological and nonpartisan.[1]”

Illustrious_Air_1438 t1_j525kpf wrote on January 19, 2023 at 9:34 PM

How are they a right wing organization? They sued Florida for the "stop woke act," advocated for a student whose school denied recognition for his club because it supported universal healthcare, and advocated for a Stanford student whose diploma was put on hold after he satirized the Federalist society and Republicans.