OP/GV/Dustin do not like the rationalism brand because it attracts right-coded folks
Open Phil does not want to fund anything that is even slightly right of center in any policy work
I think this is specifically about the rat community attracting people with racist views like “human biodiversity” (which you alluded to re: “our speaker choices at Manifest”) and not about being right-wing or right-leaning generally. As a counterexample, OP made three grants to the Niskanen Center to fund their immigration policy work. I would characterize Niskanen as centrist with a libertarian bent and not definitively right-leaning, but they were originally an offshoot of the right-libertarian movement. Niskanen was founded by people from the Cato Institute and has been funded by “donors who seek to counter libertarian-conservative hostility to measures against global warming.”[1]
OP also supported the Nolan Center for Justice at the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC, in 2021 as part of their criminal justice reform program. At a quick glance, most of the groups they supported through their CJR program appear to be left-leaning, but it is untrue that OP has not funded anything right-leaning. Perhaps OP should be more willing to do the kind of cross-partisan grantmaking that their CJR program embodied.
I think this is specifically about the rat community attracting people with racist views like “human biodiversity” (which you alluded to re: “our speaker choices at Manifest”) and not about being right-wing or right-leaning generally. As a counterexample, OP made three grants to the Niskanen Center to fund their immigration policy work. I would characterize Niskanen as centrist with a libertarian bent and not definitively right-leaning, but they were originally an offshoot of the right-libertarian movement. Niskanen was founded by people from the Cato Institute and has been funded by “donors who seek to counter libertarian-conservative hostility to measures against global warming.”[1]
OP also supported the Nolan Center for Justice at the American Conservative Union, the organization that runs CPAC, in 2021 as part of their criminal justice reform program. At a quick glance, most of the groups they supported through their CJR program appear to be left-leaning, but it is untrue that OP has not funded anything right-leaning. Perhaps OP should be more willing to do the kind of cross-partisan grantmaking that their CJR program embodied.
Niskanen Center on Wikipedia