Posted on 07/28/2024 1:28:36 PM PDT by dennisw
French Gates told the Times she decided to get involved in politics after the 2022 Supreme Court decision that overturned Roe v. Wade, the half-century-old decision that had protected abortion rights.
"I knew I had to speak out in favor of women's rights, and if there was a candidate who is against women's rights and says terrible things about women, there is no way I could vote for that person," she said.
Melinda French Gates thinks the new generation of billionaire activists aren't doing enough. Gates also called Elon Musk's criticism of her political endorsements "silly."
Gates says she will continue to give to organizations that support women's rights. Melinda French Gates says the new generation of billionaires, like Elon Musk and Peter Thiel, these days primarily use their "megaphones" instead of their bank accounts to effect change.
In an interview with The New York Times, Gates was asked what she thinks about the approach to philanthropy shown by the new generation of "billionaire activists" — like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey, hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, and PayPal founder Peter Thiel.
"Well, the people you just named have not been very philanthropic yet," French Gates replied. "They use their voice and they use their megaphones, but I would not call those men philanthropists."
In May, Gates announced her intention to step down from her role as cochair of the Gates Foundation, which she founded with her former husband, Microsoft cofounder Bill Gates.
In her announcement, she said she would remain committed to "people and organizations working on behalf of women and families around the world, including on reproductive rights in the United States."
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And she’s made her wealth and fame how???? 🤔🤔🤔😱
What the heck did she ever do to become a billionaire except sleep with a nerd and try not to throw up doing it?
“transistor and solid-state circuitry”
Thank AT&T, Sony and the small AM radios many of us used as kids.
-PJ
She may be a good mother but it appears to me that she is too neurotic to vote.
Not to justify Bill Gates' infidelity, but we can understand lol.
These leftists are insufferable.
Philanthropy is only what they say it is— left wing causes, harm to 3rd world persons, degradation of the culture.
Time to change our tax code to tax Philanthropy.
Ms Gates is a weird looking she / him freak. FOAD
CAN SOMEONE 51-50 her??? PLEASE???
Melinda Gates was never hot.
Musk funded the lawsuit Gina Carano just won against Disney.
She has never met him but he felt for her plight because she was punished and fired for not agreeing to promote their woke agenda.
Seems Musk does do some things we all don’t really know about.
What evidence do you hsve that the kids turned out well
She got half a very rich mans fortune for doing nothing but sleeping with him. Shes not one to point fingers.
And it is critical to maintain these rights so as to keep down the number of negroes, whom she hates with a murderous passion.
Margaret Sanger pushed abortion as a way to control the births of black women. Sanger was a monster.
Missy Gates - the ultimate DEI example - didn’t earn it.
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She married a multi-billionaire. That was her achievement. Other than that, no one would have ever heard her name.
And that is why that fact must be shown to women and emphasized continually. Get them to understand that they are voting to support killing black babies by the millions and that they are siding with true racists by doing so.
A philanthropist is someone that marries a guy, gets to be a billionaire because of that relationship. Divorces that guy and becomes a billionaire. Then gives away money to left wing causes. See the difference?
That is the only thing it means to these leftist ghouls.
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