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Mark Cuban

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And if you just feel like I can't speak up because of it, because you're white and that doesn't comport well with DEI programs, a lot of things are going to happen, right? Either that's going to come up in your performance review, HR or your boss is going to have to address it in some way. It's going to get to HR at some level, and then decisions are going to have to be made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And if you just feel like I can't speak up because of it, because you're white and that doesn't comport well with DEI programs, a lot of things are going to happen, right? Either that's going to come up in your performance review, HR or your boss is going to have to address it in some way. It's going to get to HR at some level, and then decisions are going to have to be made.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And you can't just fire somebody because they spoke up, right? Somebody's going to have to communicate with you. And so I think a lot of... I just don't trust the supposed volume that... people say it's happening at versus everything I've read and seen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And you can't just fire somebody because they spoke up, right? Somebody's going to have to communicate with you. And so I think a lot of... I just don't trust the supposed volume that... people say it's happening at versus everything I've read and seen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And you can't just fire somebody because they spoke up, right? Somebody's going to have to communicate with you. And so I think a lot of... I just don't trust the supposed volume that... people say it's happening at versus everything I've read and seen.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And when I talk to people in positions of authority within organizations and ask them who's forcing them to implement these ideologies, nobody says yes, that there is somebody. But on Twitter, it sounds great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And when I talk to people in positions of authority within organizations and ask them who's forcing them to implement these ideologies, nobody says yes, that there is somebody. But on Twitter, it sounds great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

And when I talk to people in positions of authority within organizations and ask them who's forcing them to implement these ideologies, nobody says yes, that there is somebody. But on Twitter, it sounds great.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So where have you criticized it and been condemned? Academic or? Academic, yeah. Academics, let's, two different worlds.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So where have you criticized it and been condemned? Academic or? Academic, yeah. Academics, let's, two different worlds.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So where have you criticized it and been condemned? Academic or? Academic, yeah. Academics, let's, two different worlds.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

It's just like- Well, maybe it's because I'm an entrepreneur when I see an ideal that you try to implement it and support it and get to that point. But universities and companies are night and day different, right? I can see an argument for the ideology in a university. I can see, you look at the amount of money spent on it. And so while the goal is right-

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

It's just like- Well, maybe it's because I'm an entrepreneur when I see an ideal that you try to implement it and support it and get to that point. But universities and companies are night and day different, right? I can see an argument for the ideology in a university. I can see, you look at the amount of money spent on it. And so while the goal is right-

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

It's just like- Well, maybe it's because I'm an entrepreneur when I see an ideal that you try to implement it and support it and get to that point. But universities and companies are night and day different, right? I can see an argument for the ideology in a university. I can see, you look at the amount of money spent on it. And so while the goal is right-

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

the way they implement it in universities, the way they implement most things in universities is wrong, right? There's a reason why tuition has gone up, you know, a multitude of, or a multiple of inflation, they're not well-run organizations across the board. So I'm not gonna argue with that at all. So when you've seen me argue with DEI, I haven't waded into DEI and universities at all.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

the way they implement it in universities, the way they implement most things in universities is wrong, right? There's a reason why tuition has gone up, you know, a multitude of, or a multiple of inflation, they're not well-run organizations across the board. So I'm not gonna argue with that at all. So when you've seen me argue with DEI, I haven't waded into DEI and universities at all.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

the way they implement it in universities, the way they implement most things in universities is wrong, right? There's a reason why tuition has gone up, you know, a multitude of, or a multiple of inflation, they're not well-run organizations across the board. So I'm not gonna argue with that at all. So when you've seen me argue with DEI, I haven't waded into DEI and universities at all.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So it's mostly focused on companies. 100%, right, because that's where I exist. But at the same time, like I read Christopher Rufro's book where he talks about the genealogy of wokeism and ideology, but then he gets to the point, and I hope I'm remembering this right, where he says that the response to it is decentralized activism, if you will.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So it's mostly focused on companies. 100%, right, because that's where I exist. But at the same time, like I read Christopher Rufro's book where he talks about the genealogy of wokeism and ideology, but then he gets to the point, and I hope I'm remembering this right, where he says that the response to it is decentralized activism, if you will.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#422 – Mark Cuban: Shark Tank, DEI & Wokeism Debate, Elon Musk, Politics & Drugs

So it's mostly focused on companies. 100%, right, because that's where I exist. But at the same time, like I read Christopher Rufro's book where he talks about the genealogy of wokeism and ideology, but then he gets to the point, and I hope I'm remembering this right, where he says that the response to it is decentralized activism, if you will.