From 2017, some backround...
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/06/what-really-happened-between-joe-biden-and-bill-ackman.html
Gee, did the guy write a letter about how Harrrrrrvard treats Trump supporters! See, the door is cracked then slammer OPEN! Welcome to the party buddy......
He’s right in every regard, but that letter is too long. Donors need to start witholding their funding and in turn, use that money to fund endless civil rights litigation against Harvard and the students impacted. That is all these people understand.
Excellent letter! Someone taking action in a truly meaningful way...
Student who are antiseptic should have it noted in their files. If that’s what they believe then they should proudly wear the label. They can blaze new trails as the Harvard educated fast food workers, and the Harvard educated ditch diggers.
Warning: Language NSFW.
Hopscotch (1980) Poster Hopscotch (1980) Ned Beatty: G.P. Myerson
Andy, apologies. Sent to the wrong thread.
Anybody shocked by this crap is a. Partly responsible for it and b. Willfully ignorant of their part in fomenting it.
Typical leftist trash looking to blame everyone else.
BTTT
Just should have called on her to resign.
The letter was far too long and was most likely given the TL;DR treatment.
He should have said in one sentence that he would no longer donate to Harvard due to anti-Semitism on campus.
THAT is what gets their attention.
I’d be happy to support Mr. Ackerman as soon as he publishes a copy of his letter that he wrote in 1995 when Harvard faculty member Noel Ignatiev published in his journal “Race Traitor” calls for eliminating the white race and/or whiteness.
Harvard accepted Ignatiev without a bachelors degree into its graduate division, where he published a journal whose motto was “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity” at a time when Mr. Ackerman was not yet a hedge-fund billionaire but was already a valued alumnus active in University activities.
After Professor Ignatiev’s frequent and passionate attacks on white people, without a quibble from the college or the Harvard Corporation, the percentage of white gentiles in Harvard College shrunk to historically low levels, and has stayed there.
Now, Mr. Ackerman, you definitely wrote that letter, right? Please just let us see it.
I agree the letter is too long.
Watch any of the many videos on the Internet where a bully throws a sucker punch and receives “justice” in just a few seconds.
If someone threatens a Harvard Jewish student and spits on them, they need to have their teeth knocked out.
In those few seconds, a college student learns more than he/she EVER WOULD in four years wandering a college campus.
The Muslim women who protest should leave and continue their education in a Muslim country.
Good letter, really screws this President Gay to the wall for failing to act (and thus encouraging antisemitism), but it lacks the most important thing - a threat if the current situation continues. Specifically, a threat to not merely stop sending contributions to Harvard, but to organize a nationwide boycott of contributions by alumni. After all, money talks, BS walks.
None of this happened overnight
Harvard has billions in endowments and they didn’t get to that point without decades of alumni sending their support.
“Dear President Gay!”, stopped reading right there….
"I did not have time to send you a short letter, so I sent a long one instead." - Samuel Clemens
My husband is a Harvard graduate . When he was at Harvard ( late 70s) he estimated that the school was 30% Jewish. Those Jewish students and their children are at the peak of their careers in finance and industry. I estimate that the donations to this school will dry up. I am sorry, and this may sound racist, but when a black woman was given the Presidency of Harvard, I knew there was going to be problems.