In clear and unambiguous language, Elon Musk is contending that diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) programs are detrimental to society and should be discontinued.
“DEI must DIE,” the technology magnate announced on his social media platform X on Friday.
“The point was to end discrimination, not replace it with different discrimination,” he added.
Fox Business has more on the growing backlash to DEI initiatives:
DEI policies have come under increased scrutiny in recent months amid a surge in antisemitism on college campuses following Hamas' terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. Critics argue that the programs favor certain “protected” groups while allowing hostility toward others, such as Jewish students and faculty members, in this case.
Musk is the latest addition to a growing list of high-profile figures who have criticizes the outcomes from DEI programs in recent days, amid backlash over the presidents of Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania and MIT all refusing to say during a House hearing on antisemitism that calling for the genocide of Jews on their respective campuses breached their rules and amounted to harassment.
Following the testimony, billionaire Harvard alum Bill Ackman called on all three Ivy League leaders to “resign in disgrace” and suggested Harvard President Claudine Gay only landed her job in the first place due to the university's DEI policies.
“Shrinking the pool of candidates based on required race, gender, and/or sexual orientation criteria is not the right approach to identifying the best leaders for our most prestigious universities,” Ackman wrote on X.
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