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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Looks like Bill Ackman isn't satisfied with Prof. Gay resigning--now he wants the whole Harvard board to resign as well as for Harvard's DEI office to be shut down and its staff fired.

Putting aside how folks feel about anti-semitism, DEI, and the Gay debacle in general, is anyone else bothered that a billionaire hedge-fund manager/donor has so much power? I know colleges routinely have to prostitute themselves to get money from rich donors but where does it stop?

https://www.forbes.com/sites/anafaguy/2024/01/03/bill-ackman-calls-for-harvard-boards-resignation-after-claudine-gay-ouster/?sh=4112f5c57122[/quote]

No. I applaud when the wealthy and powerful use their resources to do the right thing. More people like Bill need to be speaking out against DEI. For too long too many billionaires have seen it as a useful distraction to the more serious class issues which actually could put their billions at risk. [/quote]

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Couldn't agree more.  Glad he is speaking out.  He certainly has a lot to say:

[twitter]https://twitter.com/BillAckman/status/1742441534627184760[/twitter]

Love that he is highlighting this:

What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form, but rather DEI was a political advocacy movement on behalf of certain groups that are deemed oppressed under DEI’s own methodology.

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. Under this ideology which is the philosophical underpinning of DEI as advanced by Ibram X. Kendi and others, one is either an anti-racist or a racist. There is no such thing as being “not racist.”

Under DEI’s ideology, any policy, program, educational system, economic system, grading system, admission policy, (and even climate change due its disparate impact on geographies and the people that live there), etc. that leads to unequal outcomes among people of different skin colors is deemed racist.

As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist, or in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organization which has or generates outcomes for different races that are at variance with the proportion these different races represent in the population at large is by definition racist under DEI’s ideology.

In order to be deemed anti-racist, one must personally take action to reverse any unequal outcomes in society. The DEI movement, which has permeated many universities, corporations, and state, local and federal governments, is designed to be the anti-racist engine to transform society from its currently structurally racist state to an anti-racist one.[/quote]

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