![]() I first became concerned about when 34 Harvard student organizations, early on the morning of October 8th before Israel had taken any military…- Bill Ackman January 3, 2024 In light of today’s news, I thought I would try to take a step back and provide perspective on what this is really all about. “According to DEI, capitalism is racist.” “Under DEI, one’s degree of oppression is determined based upon where one resides on a so-called intersectional pyramid of oppression where whites, Jews, and Asians are deemed oppressors, and a subset of people of color, LGBTQ people, and/or women are deemed to be oppressed,” the billionaire speculator wrote. 3 Ackman wrote he believes campus protests against a war-that has so far claimed over 22,000 Palestinian and Israeli lives-is rooted in an ideology that co-opted diversity, equity, and inclusion in pursuit of a political agenda Ackman argues is anti-meritocratic. Elise Stefanik December 5, 2023Īckman, who is Jewish and married to an Israeli, explained that the pro-Palestinian protests on university campuses initially sparking his activism turned out to be a symptom of a broader problem America needed to solve-DEI. THIS IS UNACCEPTABLE AND… /hUY3SgoOOi- Rep. ![]() □□□Presidents of and REFUSE to say whether “calling for the genocide of Jews” is bullying and harassment according to their codes of conduct. Even going so far to say it needs to turn to “action” first. “This is what happens when liberal universities roll over for right-wing, bad faith bullies,” wrote Mehdi Hasan, a former show host on MSNBC, in response to Ackman’s wish to now see Kornbluth go. In a statement to Fortune, the university did not respond directly to Ackman’s comments, but said the its leadership remained focused on ensuring the work of MIT continues. “ has done excellent work in leading our community, including in addressing anti-Semitism, Islamophobia, and other forms of hate, all of which we reject utterly at MIT,” wrote Mark P. In December the MIT Corporation published a letter of unequivocal support following Kornbluth’s Dec. MIT’s Kornbluth, herself Jewish, is the only one of the three women to have so far successfully resisted calls to resign-a fact Ackman now aims to correct. “The root cause of anti-Semitism at Harvard was an ideology that had been promulgated on campus, an oppressor/oppressed framework, that provided the intellectual bulwark behind the protests, helping to generate anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hate speech and harassment,” he wrote on X. Kowtowing to external pressure and condemning their first Black president to the shortest tenure in the institution’s history could have reflected just as badly on the judgment of trustees like Penny Pritzker as well.īut revelations Gay had seemingly committed widespread academic fraud under Harvard’s own stringent standards in what few papers she had published subsequently undermined her authority and made her position untenable.Īckman has called Gay a diversity hire and blamed DEI for the controversial testimony to Congress. Harvard’s Gay initially survived Ackman’s campaign, however.
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