Elon Musk on Thursday criticized Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban in a scathing tweet for his full defense of DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives across corporate America). did.
“Mark Cuban is trying desperately to promote his 'virtue,' but his hypocrisy won't convince anyone,” Musk said of two millionaires following the resignation of Harvard University President Claudine Gay. The billionaire wrote that he had an online scuffle on the X social media platform.
Cuban, who recently announced his departure from the popular business reality show “Shark Tank,” responded, “I laughed.”
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The Mavericks' owner on Wednesday came to the defense of DEI after it was slammed by hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who has been the most vocal advocate for firing Musk and Gay.
Musk and Ackman have formed a united front to denounce DEI online, but Tesla mogul Musk said DEI is “just another word for racism.”
“People who use this should be ashamed,” Musk wrote on his social media platform X on Wednesday.
“DEI is not just immoral, it's illegal because it discriminates based on race, gender, and many other factors,” Musk added.
Cuban defended DEI at length in response to Musk's He said that.
“Expanding our recruiting efforts to include them will help us find more qualified candidates,” Cuban wrote.
Musk responded to a lengthy memo written by Pershing Square founder and CEO Ackman that claimed Harvard's embrace of DEI was the “root cause of anti-Semitism” on campus. was responding.
Mr. Ackman, a Harvard University graduate, spoke out against Mr. Gay and his response to the rise in anti-Semitism at his alma mater that erupted in the wake of the Oct. 7 cross-border attack by Hamas terrorists that killed about 1,200 people. He has criticized the actions of other managers. The Israelites died.
Gay and other administrators were criticized for not doing enough to respond to a student letter circulated by dozens of groups blaming Hamas for attacks on Israel.
Last month, Gay and other top university administrators, including the presidents of the University of Pennsylvania and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, were hounded by lawmakers over whether calls for genocide against Jews violated campus codes of conduct.
Ackman called for Gay's removal after he gave what many considered evasive answers on the matter. UPenn President Liz McGill gave a similar response and resigned.
Gay announced earlier this week that he was resigning after discovering that he had plagiarized dozens of academic works he had published.
Ackman's wife, Neri Oxman, admitted Thursday that she plagiarized portions of her doctoral thesis while earning her doctorate at MIT, where she later served as a tenured professor.
