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Bill Ackman

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And basically they're like, look, Israel is deemed an oppressor and the Palestinians are deemed the oppressed. And you take the side of the oppressed and any acts of the oppressed to dislodge the oppressor, regardless of how vile or barbaric, okay. I'm like, okay, this is a super dangerous ideology. And so I wrote a like questioning post about this. Like, here's what I'm hearing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And basically they're like, look, Israel is deemed an oppressor and the Palestinians are deemed the oppressed. And you take the side of the oppressed and any acts of the oppressed to dislodge the oppressor, regardless of how vile or barbaric, okay. I'm like, okay, this is a super dangerous ideology. And so I wrote a like questioning post about this. Like, here's what I'm hearing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And basically they're like, look, Israel is deemed an oppressor and the Palestinians are deemed the oppressed. And you take the side of the oppressed and any acts of the oppressed to dislodge the oppressor, regardless of how vile or barbaric, okay. I'm like, okay, this is a super dangerous ideology. And so I wrote a like questioning post about this. Like, here's what I'm hearing.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, is this right? Then I had someone, a friend of mine sent me a Christopher Rufo's book, America's Cultural Revolution, which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory. And I found it actually one of the more important books I've read. And also I found it quite concerning. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, is this right? Then I had someone, a friend of mine sent me a Christopher Rufo's book, America's Cultural Revolution, which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory. And I found it actually one of the more important books I've read. And also I found it quite concerning. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

You know, is this right? Then I had someone, a friend of mine sent me a Christopher Rufo's book, America's Cultural Revolution, which is sort of a sociological study of the origins of the DEI movement and critical race theory. And I found it actually one of the more important books I've read. And also I found it quite concerning. Yeah.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And really, it's sort of a โ€“ ultimately, DEI comes out of a kind of a Marxist socialist backdrop way to look at the world. And so I think there are a lot of issues with it. But unfortunately, it's advancing, I ultimately concluded. Racism as opposed to fighting it, which is what I thought it was ultimately about.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And really, it's sort of a โ€“ ultimately, DEI comes out of a kind of a Marxist socialist backdrop way to look at the world. And so I think there are a lot of issues with it. But unfortunately, it's advancing, I ultimately concluded. Racism as opposed to fighting it, which is what I thought it was ultimately about.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And really, it's sort of a โ€“ ultimately, DEI comes out of a kind of a Marxist socialist backdrop way to look at the world. And so I think there are a lot of issues with it. But unfortunately, it's advancing, I ultimately concluded. Racism as opposed to fighting it, which is what I thought it was ultimately about.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then that infiltrated college campuses. So basically what Rufo argues is that the black power movement of the 60s really failed. It was a very violent movement and many of the protagonists ended up in jail. And out of that movement, a number of kind of thought leaders died. this guy named Marcuse and others, built this framework, kind of an approach.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then that infiltrated college campuses. So basically what Rufo argues is that the black power movement of the 60s really failed. It was a very violent movement and many of the protagonists ended up in jail. And out of that movement, a number of kind of thought leaders died. this guy named Marcuse and others, built this framework, kind of an approach.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then that infiltrated college campuses. So basically what Rufo argues is that the black power movement of the 60s really failed. It was a very violent movement and many of the protagonists ended up in jail. And out of that movement, a number of kind of thought leaders died. this guy named Marcuse and others, built this framework, kind of an approach.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

He said, look, if we're going to be successful, it can't be a violent movement, number one. And number two, we need to infiltrate, if you will, the universities. And we need to become part of the faculty. And we need to teach the students.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

He said, look, if we're going to be successful, it can't be a violent movement, number one. And number two, we need to infiltrate, if you will, the universities. And we need to become part of the faculty. And we need to teach the students.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

He said, look, if we're going to be successful, it can't be a violent movement, number one. And number two, we need to infiltrate, if you will, the universities. And we need to become part of the faculty. And we need to teach the students.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then once we take over the universities with this ideology, then we can go into government, and then we can go into corporations, and we can change the world. So I thought important book. And the more I dug in, the more I felt there was credibility to this, not just the kind of sociological backdrop, but to what it meant on campus.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then once we take over the universities with this ideology, then we can go into government, and then we can go into corporations, and we can change the world. So I thought important book. And the more I dug in, the more I felt there was credibility to this, not just the kind of sociological backdrop, but to what it meant on campus.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And then once we take over the universities with this ideology, then we can go into government, and then we can go into corporations, and we can change the world. So I thought important book. And the more I dug in, the more I felt there was credibility to this, not just the kind of sociological backdrop, but to what it meant on campus.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And faculty, Harvard faculty were telling me that, you know, there's really is no such thing as free speech on campus. And that, you know, there was a survey done. I don't know, a year or so ago, the Harvard faculty and only 2% of the faculty admitted, even in an anonymous survey, admitted to having a conservative point of view.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#413 โ€“ Bill Ackman: Investing, Financial Battles, Harvard, DEI, X & Free Speech

And faculty, Harvard faculty were telling me that, you know, there's really is no such thing as free speech on campus. And that, you know, there was a survey done. I don't know, a year or so ago, the Harvard faculty and only 2% of the faculty admitted, even in an anonymous survey, admitted to having a conservative point of view.