Billionaire Harvard donor Bill Ackman, who was behind the ousting of Claudine Gay as Harvard President over plagiarism and antisemitism allegations, explains in the Free Press how he finally came to realise the ‘anti-racist’ DEI agenda at universities and elsewhere was malign. Here’s an excerpt.
I ultimately concluded that antisemitism was not the core of the problem. It was simply a troubling warning sign — it was the ‘canary in the coal mine’ — despite how destructive it was in impacting student life and learning on campus.
I came to learn that the root cause of antisemitism 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.
Then I did more research. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, and the more ignorant I realised I had been about DEI, a powerful movement that has not only pervaded Harvard but the educational system at large. I came to understand that diversity, equity, and inclusion was not what I had naïvely thought these words meant.
I have always believed that diversity is an important feature of a successful organisation, but by diversity I mean diversity in its broadest form: diversity of viewpoints, politics, ethnicity, race, age, religion, experience, socioeconomic background, sexual identity, gender, one’s upbringing and more.
What I learned, however, was that DEI was not about diversity in its purest form. 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, programme, 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 colours is deemed racist.
As a result, according to DEI, capitalism is racist, Advanced Placement exams are racist, IQ tests are racist, corporations are racist — in other words, any merit-based program, system, or organisation that 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.
After the death of George Floyd, the already-burgeoning DEI movement took off without any real challenge to its problematic ideology. Why, you might ask, was there so little pushback? The answer is that anyone who dared to raise a question that challenged DEI was deemed a racist, a label that could severely impact one’s employment, social status, reputation and more. Being called a racist got people cancelled, so those concerned about DEI and its societal and legal implications had no choice but to keep quiet in this new climate of fear.
The techniques that DEI has used to squelch the opposition are found in the Red Scares and McCarthyism of decades past. If you challenge DEI, ‘justice’ will be swift, and you may find yourself unemployed, shunned by colleagues, cancelled, and/or you will otherwise put your career and acceptance in society at risk.
The DEI movement has also taken control of speech. Certain speech is no longer permitted. So-called ‘microaggressions’ are treated like hate speech. ‘Trigger warnings’ are required to protect students. ‘Safe spaces’ are necessary to protect students from the trauma inflicted by words that are challenging to the students’ newly acquired worldviews. Campus speakers and faculty with unapproved views are shouted down, shunned, and cancelled.
These speech codes have led to self-censorship by students and faculty of views privately held, but no longer shared. There is no commitment to free expression at Harvard other than for DEI-approved views. This has led to the quashing of conservative and other viewpoints from the Harvard campus and faculty, and contributed to Harvard’s having the lowest free speech ranking of 248 universities assessed by the Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression.
When one examines DEI and its ideological heritage, it does not take long to understand that the movement is inherently inconsistent with basic American values. Our country, since its founding, has been about creating and building a democracy with equality of opportunity for all. Millions of people have left behind socialism and communism to come to America to start again, as they have seen the destruction leveled by an equality of outcome society.
The E for ‘equity’ in DEI is about equality of outcome, not equality of opportunity.
DEI is racist because reverse racism is racism, even if it is against white people (and it is remarkable that I even need to point this out). Racism against white people has become considered acceptable by many not to be racism, or alternatively, it is deemed acceptable racism. While this is, of course, absurd, it has become the prevailing view in many universities around the country.
It’s interesting to see that despite turning full against DEI, Ackman still wants to hold fast to the promotion of ‘diversity’ and the prohibition of ‘hate speech’. It’s like he doesn’t realise those concepts are intrinsically tied up with one another. One step at a time.
Worth reading in full.
Stop Press: Bill Ackman’s wife Neri Oxman has been forced to apologise for plagiarism in her 2010 dissertation. Awkward. Is everybody at it?
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How is Matt Hancock being on a celeb show a “balm for the nation”? Who’s training who on extrajudicial killings?
“Is it foolish to think the world can achieve Net Zero by 2050?”
Still no-one asking why we need to achieve Nett Zero..?
Three graphs to show exactly why we don’t…
“Still no-one asking why we need to achieve Net zero.”
Exactly.
The presumption being that Net Zero will put everything right. The real problem is that people like Ross Clark continuing to discuss this nonsense are failing the public with such dishonesty. The Davos Deviants know that Net Zero is impossible, they know it will achieve only misery and mayhem and that is precisely why it will continue. Net Zero is simply the perfect control mechanism.
..couldn’t agree more..why do I NEED to eat the bugs? What do they NEED to make us all vegan/insectivores?
There will never be answers from them because other than…‘muh ..climate change’…they don’t have one that’s actually based on anything than their rampant power hungry psychosis…!
“The deep absurdity of HS2 diversity’s agenda”
I confess I read this article with a raised eyebrow. Yes, even a crusty old sceptic like me finds it hard to imagine how educated people can get so bound up in this irrelevant nonsense instead of doing their jobs.
“Why do public sector workers take more time off sick?”
Not withstanding those with genuine illness, I believe that the perception of civil servants has changed. They appear to believe the purpose of the public sector has flipped from serving the people, to being served by the people. They kept working all through Covid, you know. People banged pans and everything.
“Protect the NHS” rather than “protect the sick”…
It’s always been that way. The public sector is an idle parasite class funded by the hard work of the private sector.
Re:
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulation/doctors-to-take-legal-action-against-gmc-over-inaction-on-covid-vaccine-misinformation/
The group of doctors wanting action to be taken wish to remain anonymous. Oh, diddums, the poor little darlings hiding under the cloak of anonymity says it all really.
Hmm, the GMC allegedly have an obligation to uphold public trust in the profession. They have failed miserably in that aspect, particularly since March 2020. Too busy following the faked science and nefarious agenda…
I found this article appaling – the hounding of Dr Malhotra is despicable.
I winder who the ‘doctors’ are? Sincerely hope it isn’t someone I go to – or not as the case maybe.
Greenhalgh is the bat shit nutter who thinks masks are a good idea so obviously she doesn’t have a good relationship with facts and evidence, unlike Dr Malhotra.
And some of the anonymous contributors might be on strike to protect their balance sheets.
OK, that’s the first 15mins of a lawyer’s time covered.
More seriously, if they suddenly get large donations I would be very interested in where they come from, but not surprised if it’s big pharma or Uncle Bill. If instead they get lots of little donations I’d be astonished.
That explains it. The action is being led by Prof Greenhalgh – Dr Mask herself, the woman who wants everyone to wear a mask all the time, everywhere and forever. To be fair to the GMC – a tough call considering their awful track record – their inaction so far is in Dr Malhotra’s favour and, the longer they prevaricate, the more research will surface about side effects, etc. Greenhalgh’s comments in the piece are already untenable and provably so. It depends how vindictive the GMC want to be: if this action is upheld and they are forced to go against Malhotra, it could backfire spectacularly and become their own Brand moment.
Possible extradition for the Nazi in Canada that was given standing ovations FFS. Of course Turdeau blames Russia! The guy is 98yrs, for crying out loud. What do we think is reasonably going to happen? Justice? He’s been swanning around, enjoying his freedom for decades, just like many other war criminals. I don’t know why these things have to wait until these people are, frankly, well past their expiry date. Even the super deadly Covid didn’t take him out.
”The Canadian government insists two rounds of standing applause for a 98-year-old Waffen-SS volunteer was a mistake borne of ignorance, meanwhile, Poland is moving to extradite the elderly trooper over potential war crime charges.
The Polish government is taking steps to examine the case for extraditing a 98-year-old former SS trooper from Canada, it has said in a letter to the Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation.
State Minister for Education and Science Przemysław Czarnek wrote to the President of the Commission to examine whether it held documents indicating that Canadian resident Yaroslav Hunka was wanted for crimes against Polish and Jewish people relating to his time as a soldier with the Waffen-SS in the Second World War.
If there is evidence against Hunka, Czarnek wrote, this would constitute grounds for Poland to apply to the Canadian government to extradite the man for prosecution.”
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/09/26/poland-considers-war-crimes-extradition-for-wwii-nazi-applauded-by-trudeau-and-zelensky/
I read this article earlier today about ‘Russian disinformation’ and nazis. It’s a good read.
https://mathewaldred.substack.com/p/nato-nazis
98? So he was born in 1925? So 14 at the start of the war, and 20 by the end of it? Now, I am all for justice etc, but some of these people had to decide between compliance and being tortured and killed. It’s too late.
Meanwhile, from 2020 onwards it has been clear that it’s ok to slay old folk with midazolam, and the quacks will administer anything you like for a few quid. Who is the more culpable, the old geezer or the modern crop of camp guards?
And if ever there was a modern day Nazi it’s Turdeau! It’s actually amazing how so many of these leaders have come out of their closets as proper dictators in the last few years. And what justice can we reasonably expect for the Ardens, Faucis, Bidens etc of the world? That’ll be diddley squat then..If Turdeau condemns this 98yr old as a ”war criminal” then that’s the height of hypocrisy, in my opinion, because this evil tosser seemingly gets to commit crimes against humanity with impunity.
The point is well made. When the difficulties of 2020 emerged, the behaviour of many politicians and their acolytes and petty bureaucrats led me to think that it would be easy to go down the same plughole as many German people did in the 1930s. Perhaps we are all at risk of that, by being too compliant with the latest idea.
Precisely. The link you posted yesterday with the collation of Australian police brutality winds me up into a proper fury. Reminds me of the need to keep the pitchforks sharpened. Illustrates why we spent most of 2021 afraid of what the state was going to do next. Hopefully someone somewhere will gather together examples from around the 5 eyes nations to illustrate how far the west has sunk into a mess of corruption, illegality and brutality.
Excellent comment.
When an entire national Parliament makes a mistake borne [sic] of an ignorance refuted even by the Speaker’s introductory remarks about Churchill, then it’s time for the entire political establishment to get sacked.
Ye gods – “None of us knew that Russia was fighting the Nazis in World War 2.”
..I’m not convinced that something a little more sinister isn’t going on. I don’t think there’s a chance in hell Trudeau didn’t know who he was..there are photos of him waiting to meet Trudeau before the event..all over the web.…..and Chrystia Freeland who has a Ukrainian Nazi grandfather, has semi-regular meeting with the fascist Canadian Ukrainian OUN…….she knew…
Canada has quite a few monuments to Ukrainian Nazis..and seems to be very welcoming to them…
https://jacobin.com/2022/11/roman-shukhevych-monument-canada-nazi-ukrainian-ultranationalism
This video of Freeland and Trudeau .. meeting with Ukrainian Canadians, during Elensky’s visit it pretty sickly, and if you go to around 21 mins in, and listen to the Trudeau rant..he sounds pretty unhinged?
It has always been well known that Ukraine has problems with far-right groups, and Nazi groups….this doesn’t mean Putin is right..it just means it’s stupid to pretend that something that is obvious and true, should be swept under the rug, to suit a political situation…
Last year the Whitehouse itself hosted several members of the Azov Battalion …
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/10/07/pndc-o07.html
The West know all this, but instead of accepting and discussing it we have the same formula of pretending it doesn’t exist..pretending it’s different…and blaming Russia..
It seems to me that for their own political expediency there is a push to make Nazism more palatable to the West…?
The Trudeau video..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsTUbDJLB4E
“It seems to me that for their own political expediency there is a push to make Nazism more palatable to the West…?”
Read this Mrs Gums and your question above will be answered:
https://www.technocracy.news/technocracy-sustainable-is-the-new-code-word-for-genocide/
Naziism is the basis for the globalists Depopulation plan.
Thanks…
If in doubt, try to pretend it didn’t happen and erase it…it seems that the Canadian Government wanted the ‘speakers comments’ erased from the official records….
LOL…don’t they know it’s gone around the world…?
https://nationalpost.com/news/liberals-stopped-from-erasing-recognition-of-nazi-veteran
Looks like Ireland’s population is booming. Unfortunately nothing to do with increased births among the native population though. Crime has also significantly increased, but I’m sure it’s just a correlation. Unless they bother to record the ethnicity of who’s committing these extra crimes that is.
”The Republic of Ireland’s population has grown by almost 2 percent in a year after 141,600 immigrants entered the country between April 2022 and April 2023 — the highest total in a twelve-month period for nearly two decades.
Data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) shows the extent of the recent immigration influx into the country as more people flocked to the island nation than during the 2016 migrant crisis.
The latest figure is only surpassed in recent history during the years of the Celtic Tiger, a term referring to the economic boom experienced in the country at the turn of the century.
More than half of new arrivals during the current period originated from outside the European Union, the majority of which are understood to be Ukrainian refugees.
The immigration surge now sees the Irish population estimated at 5,281,600, up by 97,600 on the previously reported figure last year and an increase of almost 2 percent.
This equates to the population of the United States increasing by around 7 million in a year, or Germany’s by 1.7 million.
“It’s very difficult for an economy to be building and absorbing that number of people in terms of housing, the bits of the economy that are difficult to throw up overnight,” Prof. Alan Barrett, director of the Economic and Social Research Institute, told the Irish Times.”
https://rmx.news/migrant-crisis/irelands-population-surges-after-highest-immigration-figures-for-almost-2-decades/
https://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/regulation/doctors-to-take-legal-action-against-gmc-over-inaction-on-covid-vaccine-misinformation/
The only doctors who deserve to have their licenses revoked are the nameless cowards going after Dr Malhorta. If they have not done sufficient research after two plus years to realise that the injections are out and out poisons they should be struck off because they are too bloody thick to practise.
It is without doubt essential that these pharma jockeys are named. In the unlikely event that I ever get to see a GP I need to know if that GP is one of the names pushing this malicious action.
And that utter creep Jolyon Maugham at the laughably entitled “Good Law Project” how people crowdfund millions to watch him lose cases.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/26/nick-robinson-bbc-radio-4-today-programme-ratings-slump/
He’s a one that Nick Robinson isn’t he, fully on board with Newspeak?
“News Avoiders” – is that Orwell speak for “not me Guv?”
Actually Robo the Today programme is shedding listeners because:
1. It’s the BBC and more and more people realise its a propoganda machine
2. You lot haven’t the balls to put out proper journalism and the audience knows it is being lied to.
3. Simple market forces old chap – if your product isn’t good enough people won’t buy. Obviously ‘market forces’ as a concept is a difficult one for a highly remunerated BBC staffer but that’s what it is.
Always blame the customer – it works every time
Quite agree. Also the fear porn that they push out. I have switched to Radio 3. Lovely in the mornings (but their “news” is very weird).
Top notch, HP! ‘News avoiders’ though – you gotta laugh or cry! It’s just the latest version of ‘climate deniers’, ‘anti-vaxxers’ and ‘conspiracy theorists’ – a meaningless phrase from the eternally baffled, cognitively dissonanced, evil agenda and propaganda spreaders. I’m a ‘news avoider’ and proud of it. I avoid it wherever I am and have no idea of what the actual ‘news’ is other than through a process of deduction on here and other platforms.
Thanks Aethelred.
Actually “news avoider” is a sinister phrase. It suggests that those of us who have had the good sense to stay away from MSM are somehow guilty of a crime; a bit like staying away from the jibby jabs. Saintly Nick has done nothing wrong of course, he is sill a legend in his own BBC universe.
It would appear that Saintly Nick simply doesn’t understand basic economics which is quite alarming for someone in his position.
Perhaps his P45 will wake him up.
Sinister indeed. I wonder if he considers watchers of GB news as “News avoiders”. Next stop – you won’t get to vote unless you listen to an hour a day of left wing approved news so you are appropriately informed.
There’s a reason that Reuters are also seeing a precipitous drop in interest:
I sometimes hope that TNI has simply failed but on other occasions I wonder if it was intended to cause people to ‘tune out’ current affairs news.
As an example, the 20mph urban default speed limit in Wales: A bit late for the 400,000 signatures on the petition against – it would have been better before the law changed. Although it was a manifesto commitment people didn’t really engage with the issue until it was already too late.
‘News avoiders!!’
I used to listen to the Today Programme religiously every morning, probably from the mid-1980s to about 2009. At 7pm every morning, the clock radio would come on and the pips would sound. Eventually, I got so fed up of the propaganda, the fawning over New Labour, the spitting at the Tories, the way everyone appearing on there was rushed to speak in about one minute while constantly being interrupted that I stopped. I was increasingly starting my day vaguely stressed out and irritated.
The alt-media that the BBC hates so much gives me stuff like Triggernometry where people calmly sit down for an hour or so and talk. There’s multi-episode chaired debate coming up about Conservatism and Liberalism between two professors. Daily Wire recently had a two-part debate about Catholicism and Protestantism chaired by Candace Owens – about two hours’ worth. The ‘accessible’, lowest-common-denominator MSM doesn’t want to do stuff like that anymore, so why would I pay attention to it?
Erm. 7pm every morning? Yes alright, I’m nitpicking. I think we know what you mean.
Yes, I too used to rely on it a lot. Clock radio to wake up, radio on in the bathroom, in the car and small radio on the train into work.
06:00 AM for me: I recall waking to Today on Radio 4 the morning after the 1992 election when John Major retained the job of Prime Minister. It was so unexpected that I thought the programme makers had launched into an ‘aren’t we clever, we even had a segment pre-prepared for this impossible outcome‘.
I also recall leaping from my bed when I heard there had been a terrorist bomb next to my company’s office in London; I’d been working on our DR plan the previous week and knew we were nowhere near ready.
There’s actually a citizen’s initiative here in the Netherlands too, at Ter Apel where all the immigrants are processed. Crime has risen significantly in the area so locals have made a whatsapp group and they apprehend anyone, such as a thief, do a citizen’s arrest, tie them up then ring the police. I was very impressed when I watched the video. Citizens are having to step up and do the work of the police though, who can’t cope. It’s hardly a long-term solution. Decent people shouldn’t have to live like this. Cut the head off the snake.
”As is by now well known, very few of the millions of Muslims who have been arriving in Europe are true “asylum seekers,” though a great many claim to be; they are very rarely fleeing persecution and murder. They are, instead, economic migrants, eager to batten on the benefits that the generous welfare states of western Europe provide. These include free or greatly-subsidized housing, free medical care, free education (including vocational training), unemployment benefits (even without a work history in Europe), family allowances, and more. But for some Muslims, even that largesse is not enough. They want more, and they supplement their welfare benefits with the proceeds from street robberies and house burglaries.
Muslims in France, though only 10% of the population, make up 50-60% of the prisoners. In the UK., Muslims are 4% of the population, but 25% of prisoners. In Germany, Muslims are 5% of the population, and 23% of prisoners. Muslims committing crimes of property often use violence to intimidate their victims. In one city in Germany, having lost faith in the police’s ability to adequately protect the population from this Muslim crime wave, older students, and parents, too, have organized patrols and self-defense groups. More on this development can be found here: “Germany: Students arm themselves in city of Halle as violent robberies soar, parents describe ‘broken police force,’”
https://www.jihadwatch.org/2023/09/germany-students-in-halle-arm-themselves-against-muslim-migrants
Found it. The video’s worth watching even though it’s in Dutch. You’ll get the gist. Basically the locals formed a vigilante group and organized themselves to apprehend and detain migrants because there was a spate of robberies. Well who’s going to sit back and do nothing if they see their bikes, scooters and other possessions getting stolen? Big respect for showing this initiative. It’s like taking ‘Neighbourhood Watch’ to the next level.
”As a citizen, are you allowed to tie up a burglar with zip ties? It happened last week in Ter Apel, where members of the civil guard arrested two asylum seekers. Citizens are increasingly taking matters into their own hands to track down and arrest criminals. But how far can you go as a citizen?
The vigilante in Ter Apel was established to track down and arrest suspected criminals. The village suffers from so-called safelanders, asylum seekers with little chance of a residence permit.
According to local residents, they cause a lot of nuisance and so citizens are taking matters into their own hands. Figures previously showed that nowhere in the Netherlands does more shoplifting occur per inhabitant than in the municipality where Ter Apel is located.”
https://www.rtvnoord.nl/nieuws/1050669/burgerwacht-in-opkomst-hoe-ver-mag-je-gaan
The Spiked article about Mark Drakeford’s worth reading
latest leaflet
“Millions of train journeys that took commuters in and out of the capital during the week are no longer taking place, prompting fears that the drive to return workers to London is failing, says the Mail.”
Why “fear”? What “drive” is failing? Who is “driving”? People are voting with their feet. London is crowded and often unpleasant. I don’t miss it. I don’t think it is in any danger of becoming a ghost town. Perhaps this will boost the towns from which people used to commute. Rush hour was simply bloody awful, now it is more bearable. I just don’t see why this is a “problem”.
Birmingham is also not what it was
“Nick Robinson blames ‘
newsbullsh*t avoiders’ for Today programme’s ratings slump”There, fixed it for you Nick.
Elon Musk last piece absolutely brilliant.
The huge food and general merchandise store Target has said it will close nine more stores – claiming theft and organised retail crime have made the environment unsafe for staff and customers – and unsustainable for business.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/26/business/target-retail-theft-store-closures/index.html
I notice that the areas they are closing them in are all run by Democrats..and have all been involved in ‘de-funding’ the Police, to some degree or another…..?!
David Dickson
@dksdata
England & Wales – Week 37
Another big spike this week – 1,312 Excess Deaths
Excess Deaths Climbing – ACROSS ALL AGES.
We need investigations not standing ovations.
52,092 EXCESS DEATHS IN 2023 ALREADY.
Wash and repeat for Scotland. Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Australia… (on and on).
Time for every ‘Leader’ to admit what we all know.
No more coverups re-writing history by manipulating and deleting data.
What I think about Matt Hancock would get me banned if I wrote it down…
I’ll let Doctor Dr McHonk Honk say it….
Matty is a psycho…..
A Good Death?
https://www.bitchute.com/video/FOkZuCNCmrGl/
Gosh, NewScum vs. De SwampPiss.
That´ll be an exciting reptilian battle.
Newscum you got right ! What’s Ron done though ? Seemed like the only Star in the Covid Sky !
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/09/27/gb-news-laurence-fox-ava-evans-comments/
Why is it difficult to understand that you lose when you attack someone on any basis other than their words or actions? Jeez Laurence!