Posted on 02/03/2024 11:23:18 PM PST by dennisw
Mark Cuban and Elon Musk recently had an argument on X over DEI initiatives. The argument soon devolved into insults from Musk and his supporters. Cuban told Business Insider that X is a good place to argue but that he'll be using Threads more. Recently, Mark Cuban learned that if you're searching for enlightenment or, at the very least, a stimulating debate on hot-button topics of the day, you may think twice about relying on Elon Musk's X.
Last month, Cuban defended corporate diversity, equity, and inclusion programs (DEI) on the social media platform and sometimes solicited people to join the conversation. And many users did, including an Equal Employment Opportunity Commission employee.
But it didn't take long for the debate, if it ever was one, to devolve into an exchange of insults — notably from the X owner himself. Musk chimed in throughout Cuban's posts to call him a "liar" and "racist" and mockingly asked the fellow billionaire if people can expect to see "white/Asian women" on the Dallas Mavericks.
Cuban is a former majority owner of the NBA team.
Cuban told The Wall Street Journal that the reaction didn't come to him as a surprise. What did suprise him was how it appeared no one came to his defense on DEI and, instead, how hate quickly ensued on the platform.
"Having Elon call me a racist, moron, chicken, and whatever else he posted didn't surprise me and, honestly, I didn't care what he said," Cuban, who is Jewish, told the Journal. "But that seemed to open the door for levels of antisemitism and hate that I didn't expect."
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I heard Mark is getting sued for illegal hiring practices.
So he doesn’t like X as a platform because people actually disagreed with him.
This fag-parasite couldn’t take being repeatedly punched in the nose (at Twitter) over his DEI forever policies at his Dallas Mavericks. This liar has DEI policies to placate/suck up to his prime profits generators. His black basketball team.
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Mark Cuban explains why he sold his majority stake of the Dallas Mavericks
The NBA on Wednesday approved Cuban’s sale of a controlling interest in the Mavericks to the Adelson and Dumont families, who run Las Vegas Sands Corp.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/sports/mark-cuban-explains-sold-majority-stake-dallas-mavericks-rcna131499
I see that as a bad development. Cuban is a SOB, but at least you know what you're dealing with.
Now the gamblers are in charge. They're going to rig the games. They want a casino built by the Mavs' stadium.
M’kay Mark, duly noted… 🙄
I’d rather like a cat fight.
So why didn’t he criticize the twitter echo chamber pre-elon?
They’re like 2 divorce lawyers fighting it out in court-it’s for real. Afterwards they go out and talk over a cold one.
Can’t handle competition, eh Mark?
If Cuban really believes in DEI he should fire Luka Doncic. What kind of message is he sending by having the best player of his team be white?
Well... Mark Cuban might be on to something.
I never have been a fan of Twitter or X but I have to tell you I was on Twitter back around ~2010 for about a minute and then my nephew showed me how much porn was actually embedded on the Twitter site.
So then I got to thinking ‘okay all these people are on Twitter some of them very prominent some of them wishing to be taken seriously’ but it’s a flippin’ porn site.
Then I got to thinking... some of these folks have done absolutely no due diligence in regards to where they are posting commentary.
It was then I stopped taking a lot of those people seriously, in fact I used the Twitter analogy when regarding individuals and they’re worth. That might sound pretty judicial but it turned into a decision point.
And a number of personalities should have probably taken the high road and ignored Twitter altogether, certainly it gets a lot of mention yet it deserves none of it.
X on the otherhand is just the unholy bastard stepchild of twitter and I feel a similar disdain. Some things never get a 2nd chance to make a good 1st impression... and those posting on the porn site formally called twitter, that doesn’t pass the litmus test in my book.
The Games are mostly rigged anyway...
Business Insider is leftis trash
It’s easier to recover from a nuclear strike than decades of Democrat control”
LOL! Nobody is on the Leftist “threads”. They launched that to much fanfare and it promptly tanked.
Does anybody really care what Mark Cuban thinks?
Im old enough to remember when they said Threads would wipe out X.
“I heard Mark is getting sued for illegal hiring practices.”
Yes he is, by the government. The government wants him to hire more illegals.
Gotta support DEI (spit!) to keep the merchandise ads from going away.
Smoke this Cuban.
“if people can expect to see “white/Asian women” on the Dallas Mavericks.”
@weiwu on twitter started it all. Funny person.
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