Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman: Harvard has not been a bastion of free speech

[@ammumeme5789]

Shut up or lose your job and the ability to feed your family, are those even choices?

[@Tendomcgoobin]

Should we ask Ja Rule what he thinks next

[@Miloxiaocelao]

I’d like to hear what Ja Morant has to say

[@kikolatulipe]

NO to censorship , yes free speech ! No to billionaires controlling free speech !

[@rebeccamcroberts5486]

What if they were using their free speech to call. for your death instead of.....bet you'd change your tune.

[@draneym2003]

​@@rebeccamcroberts5486Hey, Ackman started it. Why is speech acceptable but not ours?

[@tourist9862]

Speech about calling for a market crash while having a massive short should not be accepted speech either MR Ackman.

[@victorblock3421]

Nice try with your lie. He had closed it already. Have more lies?

[@Kwame-yw9kz]

Karma… “Neri Oxman, an architect and the wife of billionaire investor Bill Ackman, has apologized for instances of plagiarism in her 2010 dissertation. A Business Insider article Thursday said she didn’t use quotation marks when quoting another work in several instances and paraphrased from a book without a citation” WS J

[@draneym2003]

But it's antisemitism to attack her...because free speech absolutist Ackman doesn't like it. Classic.

[@drboyce]

As a black man, I'm offended by his references to American racism to defend the behavior of Israel. A child is being killed in Palestine every 10 minutes. Stop this.

[@orlandoescobar5174]

According to Hamas, though. Who knows what the real number is

[@William1866]

@@orlandoescobar5174 That number didn't come from Hamas. UN on the ground there.

[@drno4603]

If your position is that it's not 10 but 5 babies being killed each day, you have already lost the argument.

[@orlandoescobar5174]

@@William1866 yes it did. Gaza health ministry is controlled by Hamas

[@William1866]

@@orlandoescobar5174 The UN is not controlled by Hamas. The estimate from Hamas is 20,000. Stop trying to spin this.

[@Gohary936]

Love how he’s all about free speech until it’s about criticizing Israel - then no, free speech goes out the window. Ridiculous .

[@valorien1]

Right...because no one criticizes Israel on campuses, ever... Do you understand the difference between freely voicing your opinion vs. calling for the extermination of a country? Why is it that you people always have such an obsession with that specific country, and ONLY with that country?

[@foocoult]

"free palestine is OK" but not some weird land to sea phrase? free speech or not bro, you seriously get offended by that? i cant believe that a billionaire would be offended by some land to sea line. hey bill, reach down your pants and grab your testicles. remember you are a grown up man,

[@saml8967]

​@@valorien1"Calling for the extermination" of a country is free speech. Deal with it.

[@kennethadler7380]

Love how you people have fired professors over Halloween costumes but now you want the freedom the call for genocide against Jews and than you cry as a baby if people dont want to hire you

[@عمرحليله-خ7ع]

@@valorien1 Maybe because they're slaughtering children?

[@romelanis]

Alas, educational institutions are also controlled by billionaires. It is alarming for the future.

[@cozyslor]

Not public institutions

[@beatmanbeatman498]

Free speech is free speech.

[@richardyu5283]

unfortunately it's not. woke mentality today is inclusion is only for those who think the same

[@FrederickCasa]

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

[@kennethadler7380]

Free Israel from their Arab colonizers

[@curttf5382]

Anybody else sick of this political hack?

[@moshebmoshe]

Why are we asking a financial expert about speech on campus?

[@JamesFrederickstech]

Bc he donated millions to Harvard

[@christiancoronado]

Because they are big donors, and when you make it big, people will start listening to ur opinion

[@fsckool6894]

when you are rich, you become expert on everything.

[@enemyofYTemployees]

The same reason you get to share your question here, even though a door nail has something more interesting to say than you ever could.

[@cihant5438]

Why aren't you on there with your intelligence and logic, but he is @@drewdavis5492

[@mbr500]

BA is lecturing us about ethics?!?

[@samwalton4598]

That’s Harvard where double standards rein supreme. What a 💩institution! They wouldn’t let Condy Rice speak?! Who intellectually could run circles around 90% of the Harvard faculty. Shameful! The WOKE mob shouts down anyone who strays from the plantation of group think. Ackman has a valid point, but he’s about 15 years late to the party. It looks like the WOKE mob has racist antisemitic tendencies too!!! The very “ideologies” the WOKE faculty are trying to banish under the guise of “hate” speech. I love when the WOKE mob run out of groups to eat and then they turn on themselves. Lord of The Flies!!! How ironic!!!

[@roykama3489]

I hear some Jealousy

[@Thea-gj2or]

​@@roykama3489I sense a fan boi. You are making more enemies than friends, myself among them. I wish no harm on anyone but I am developing a seething hatred for the actions and excuses of certain types. Good luck with that, chosen one!

[@roykama3489]

@@Thea-gj2or 🤩🤣😂🤣

[@Thea-gj2or]

@@roykama3489 yuck it up, buttercup.

[@thejeffinvade]

Criticizing Israeli war crimes isn't anti antisemitism. Humas is a terrorist organization, but Israelis don't have the moral high ground either.

[@xtinabay]

Punctuating every sentence with "ok?" is so condescending.

[@tvm73827]

You are overreacting. This is called a “verbal tic” or “verbal filler/crutch” and is quite common. Happens when people are agitated or very emotional, for some instance.

[@Thea-gj2or]

​@@tvm73827another fearless defender. Do you want a job from old bill or just some street credit. Only a Jew can defend what the Jews are doing right now. May you reap what you sow.

[@charles8466]

Bill Ackman is one of the most racist people on the planet

[@robertmontague1216]

The feds should investigate Ackman to determined if he is using financial leverage to silence the students' 1st Amendment rights

[@LayLoow]

He clearly is

[@mirzapa]

“My wife doesn’t plagiarize. ” - Bill Ackman

[@JamesFrederickstech]

You lose credibility when you only speak on a topic when it negatively effects your beliefs or tribe.

[@billytheadult6247]

The second part of your comment is so true. Excellent observation

[@thesadboxman]

What most people don't realize is exactly this type of bias within them.

[@vectoraerialimaging774]

Give me a break...How many BLM activists do you see standing up to defend Israelis? Each "tribe" is going to defend their own. Ackman is speaking as a well respected Harvard graduate and a Jewish man. Hopefully billionaires such as Ackman will stop hiring from racist anti-Semitic schools like Harvard. Oh and by the way, I'm not Jewish.

[@pantethine66]

tHE MAN IS TRIBAL

[@aladdinala1]

Mmm why would a jew be concerned when be sees supposedly young educated people spewing jew hatred?! I wonder why!

[@Lex41127]

Must be nice having enough $$$ to state your opinion by making a call

[@garrettjohnson7546]

Harvard is about matriculation and nepotism.

[@William1866]

Mr. Pump and Dump needs to stay out of this.

[@_rohit97]

He is a Jew ! Why tf would he stay out of it😂

[@roykama3489]

Sounds like you are jealous.

[@William1866]

@@roykama3489 Sounds like you make lame comments.

[@victorblock3421]

Poor baby is angry

[@William1866]

@@victorblock3421 Poor baby? Look who's talking. Your comment is like a little boy sticking out his tongue.

[@maxlee3]

Oh darn they have a huge endowment fund = Promoting Elitist myth

[@Trader_JMB]

I just think Isreal should figure out how to financially aid themselves.

[@yasirshafi]

Talk about hypocrisy. These guys are more worried about what is happening in colleges instead of covering the actual horrific conflict. The whole point about free speech is that you have to accept opinions you might hate but you have to allow them to be expressed even if they right or wrong in your view.

[@xinjiesamli7431]

Free speech is not speech without consequences

[@owenhoong88]

And you're sure you can accept any speech? Yes free speech does include things that we don't agree upon. But a threat is not suppose to be taken lightly. A threat to anyone!!! If the question was asked on genocide against other minority, or towards you, will you do nothing??

[@kennethadler7380]

Harvard students have cancelled people over Halloween costumes or misgendering but now they want freedom of speech and now they are against cancel culture

[@Ob3l15k]

The pain and suffering being inflicted on those poor children whose only crime was being born in this cruel world, unimaginable.

[@jonathonhappel]

These anti-Semitic protests on Jews happened before any Israeli military response.

[@enemyofYTemployees]

Get a helmet or something man, you are embarrassingly soft.

[@kisha1682]

He donates, but no one asked his opinion on anything! Plus, he’s just doing it for a tax break!

[@zzdma7545]

Just google "Bill Ackman, Jeffrey Epstein and MIT". You will find something very funny

[@ZakWayne]

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic. Criticizing Iran is not Islamaphobic. This guy needs to pack up his double standards and incoherent rant and go home.

[@jetstream3528]

BRAVO

[@michelelewis-mx4ty]

You r only concerned about Jews.

[@billytheadult6247]

"Harvard has not been a bastion of free speech" claims the guy who is attempting to subjucate free speech. Mr. Ackman, stick to your job. Politics is not for you.

[@meemmahmood]

Positively Orwellian. As Orwell said, "In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible… Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness…Where there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms…"

[@katadam2186]

Afraid of the endowment money not growing in the market

[@KASalaam2U]

All students should feel safe on university campuses.

[@JamesFrederickstech]

100% agree

[@frednicholson]

Not if that means they are never offended.

[@JamesFrederickstech]

agreed@@frednicholson

[@superSIZEmee]

#BillAckmanAndNeriOxmanEpstiensEnablers #JewishPplPlaigerizedIsraeliteIdentity #WithdrawAckmansDegrees🤷‍♂️♾️

[@tientrinh943]

Basically he said he’s for free speech except sometimes

[@TheGeltam]

I have plenty of money so i got to decide what is acceptable.

[@nikegot2b]

In 2020 when I say “All Lives Matter” I was bullied. I hope in 2024 I can finally say that out loud at my university without being attacked. That’s my New Years wish.

[@garyclark6727]

this free speach issue is a bit of a problem for mr ackman, you see it's only "his" free speach that really matter's he's also a complete hypocrite when it comes to copying other written work's as his wife is indeed well known for Plagiarism... young people can see in real time this man is a serial interfering trouble maker, i think people should scrutinize his & his wife's history just to make sure.

[@CS-qc7np]

This interview is hard to watch because Joe never lets people that he disagrees with talk. He cuts them off or talks over them, yet he wants to talk about free speech. This was just for the ratings!

[@superSIZEmee]

#BillAckmanAndNeriOxmanEpstiensEnablers #JewishPplPlaigerizedIsraeliteIdentity #WithdrawAckmansDegrees🤷‍♂️♾️

[@greenforce888]

Free speech is a limitation on government, not tv programming.

[@CS-qc7np]

@@greenforce888 WGaF?

[@applelap24]

From the river to the sea has been used by the Likud party as well. I think the woman at CNBC was about to make that point before the video cut off

[@draneym2003]

I feel so much better letting the Bill Ackmans of the world decide what is acceptable speech and what is not. Heavy sarcasm.

[@Roan-xj1mg]

he didn't say what is right or wrong. Just that it should be normal to open to both sides. I guess you are one of the people who see other opinions as an attack

[@عمرحليله-خ7ع]

@@Roan-xj1mg Nothing wrong with listening to both sides, but it's kinda hard to defend genocide.

[@draneym2003]

​@Roan-xj1mg He did say. It's OK to rip DEI, but Judaism is off limits. You can't have it both ways. If he wants to go off on DEI and affirmative action, fine. But then I should be able to rip his religion.

[@draneym2003]

​@@Roan-xj1mgBut once you threw the woke word around in other comments I realize you're not a serious person. Get lost.

[@soojoe]

This is a religious debate. And religious debates are never ending. Can we talk about business?

[@wenkaiyang1487]

I ve never seen Muslim billionaire hedge fund manager.

[@ronaldomike]

Thanks Becky

[@maxlee3]

Defund Harvard

[@ammumeme5789]

Sure, lets defund American universities due to our loyalty to a foreign country.

[@ammumeme5789]

I'm uncomfortable with rich boss men telling us what to think when we are not on the job. There's something fundamentally inequitable in the power balance, since regular people will always be employees and rich people will be employers. How will the regular people's views be heard? I guess 2024 will be the new 1984.

[@vladimirk1498]

You should read "1984" before making statements like this. "1984" is what ultraleft professors creating on campuses right now ))) Perhaps you also should read Huxley's "Brave New World", to be able to use correct examples. Anyway looks like students at Harvard should pay more attention to education, instead of clashes and riots.

[@ammumeme5789]

Vlad, you should read 1984 without your filters on. You speak in dog whistles. 'Ultra left professors' smh

[@vladimirk1498]

@@ammumeme5789 When there is nothing substantive to answer, manipulation comes into play. Yes my friend?)) I count at least two (changing the subject, Gaslighting), perhaps I missed something, do not answer, Bye))

[@truthhurts2879]

Bill certainly didn't mind the rampant antiwhiteism and even worse the relentless anti Christian rhetoric being proliferate on campus, but only speak out when it affects them. It's OK till it happens to you right? Right.

[@timgates6071]

Is this the same guy that pumped and dumped SPAC stocks lol? God be good.

[@robertmontague1216]

Yep, overall he's doing more harm than good on this issue

[@richardyu5283]

So what are you going to do about it Ackman?

[@meemmahmood]

Put them in thought prison, maybe?

[@Beauty-collection1218]

Shame on Harvard

[@Bryanbkk]

This is not the place for this discussion.

[@kurdi98k]

Overpriced institute anyways. You can earn a degree in other western countries for a fraction of the price and get the same jobs. Yes that means you start your life with way less debt or even no debt.

[@JamesFrederickstech]

Harvard gives most of their courses away for free. I'm taking their CS50 (computer science) course for free right now and its excellent.

[@Zero11_ss]

Lol you will not get the same jobs, its all about making connections and leveraging those into the top pay jobs. If you're going to these schools and only going to your classes for the degree then you are doing the wrong thing.

[@AndrewJYing]

You will also get paid a fractional amount too.

[@kurdi98k]

@@AndrewJYing Clueless.

[@kurdi98k]

​@@Zero11_ss​Connections aren't uniquely made at Ivy league. But you can keep blabbing.

[@HOHLfmly]

If the Chicago Statement principles catch on more widely on campuses, they could help students build skills in free and civil debate that could in turn become a bridge between their university tenures and their future careers. The statement could also serve as a reminder to business leaders about the value of free expression. One leader who could benefit: Bill Ackman-who responded to recent plagiarism allegations against his wife by declaring that he would “unleash hell” against a publication that reported on them. For corporate titans, just as for college students, it takes practice to learn how to speak out without trampling others.

[@janosik150]

Hamas would not exist if Jews had different actions Bill!! It's like saying you can't say anything bad about Hitler and Nszzi

[@victorblock3421]

You wouldn't exist either if Israel didn't

[@kennethadler7380]

Hamas is a Arab Islamofacist terrorist organization

[@MattieShiloh]

Thank you Bill Ackman, more voices like yours are desperately needed right now, this is a dangerous time to be a Jewish student on campus

[@stevenyu5384]

Ackman, take your money and go shove it! Blah blah blah.

[@moderneurope]

U.S. universities are often recognized for their high degree of academic freedom, especially when compared to institutions in more authoritarian regimes. In the United States, academic freedom is a fundamental principle, enabling scholars to research, teach, and express ideas without fear of institutional censorship or government control. This freedom, essential to the democratic ethos, adheres to rigorous academic standards and fosters intellectual dissent, playing a key role in challenging authoritarian structures and societal norms. Conversely, universities in authoritarian regimes frequently encounter significant restrictions, with academic freedom limited to conform to government policies and ideologies. In the context of fostering inclusivity in America, it's noteworthy to examine the composition of political entities such as the Republican Party. As of [insert date], the party's representation in the U.S. Senate is predominantly Christian (100%), with limited racial (4% non-white) and gender diversity (8% women). This homogeneity could raise concerns about the breadth of perspectives in policy decisions, impacting diverse sectors, including education. Historical analysis shows limited representation of certain groups within the party, for example, only three Jewish Senators - Jacob Javitz, Norm Coleman, and Arlen Specter, the latter switching parties in 2009.

[@christiancoronado]

Hopefully all these big donors stop giving money to schools

[@jetstream3528]

Why not....they stopped paying taxes

[@christiancoronado]

@jetstream3528 Why continue if its their money and the values of the organization they donated don't align with their values anymore. If I wasn't paying taxes, I'd either keep it all, or buy stuff for myself

[@soojoe]

Bro the largest donors is the UAE and Chinese government. Gotta follow the money. Not individuals most groups/organizations.

[@hsjung7517]

The language “From the river to the sea” is in Israel charter!! what hypocrite. So it is okay when Israel commits genocide but it is not okay when Palestine supporters use the same words as chant for their freedom

[@shauna996]

Free Palestein from Hamas

[@westmassdave7354]

What he’s looking for is the same reason that a priest could call the police on from something you say in a confession. If you threaten to harm someone he’s obligated to help the community by taking you into custody.

[@tongwu]

Bill Ackman needs to be protected at all cost

[@saml8967]

He's a billionaire. He'll be just fine.

[@needhelpusmle6493]

I think Sarah Aisen summed it up well at 10:50. “It’s not free speech if it’s hate speech”. That principle should apply to all hate speech, not just one group. Ackman should have spoke up a long time ago.

[@111foghorn1]

Harvard Scholar = Expert in copy and paste

[@donpow4268]

Bill is one hundred percent right but this broad is ignorant and out of line

[@nicholass3628]

"I'm all for free speech" (as long as it is speech he approves of LOL ). What a hypocrite.

[@PennyPincher60]

Go Bill. Thanks for speaking up on this important issue.

[@peterbedford2610]

Who cares what he says about a college?!

[@victorblock3421]

you care

[@PKCP60]

The Ivy yeshiva boys.

[@adamchan881]

Not just free speech. Everything must have limits or else our country is no different from the outlaw countries.

[@mattinterweb]

Same is happening in Oxford & Cambridge.

[@anna-tn8mg]

Oxford is a bastion of antisemitism

[@nikegot2b]

My school too. Apparently in every university

[@LayLoow]

Fantastic we need more dialogue not wars

[@grahambeckmann3557]

Normal people have to stand up.

[@michaelmiller6878]

“Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and perpetrator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no excuses, no mitigating argument. Atrocity never balances or rectifies the past. Atrocity merely arms the future for more atrocity. It is self-perpetuating upon itself-a barbarous form of incest. Whoever commits atrocity also commits those future atrocities thus bred.”

[@AdilA-f4y]

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[@fhowland]

As usual, Ackman is spot-on. I've become a huge fan of his.

[@johnc1873]

Why? Ackman is a terrorist sympathizer supporting genocide against Palestine

[@fhowland]

@@user-bs5cr1sd2i found the antisemite

[@Twestliw]

Grow up if you’re a grown you need to be a fan of your work not of another grown ass man

[@markjasper6110]

Go, Bill!

[@jamieg9607]

Yeah back to his regular job

[@mozahidhossain]

Stupidity doesn’t have limit… cheat in stock market, Harvard students know which side they should stand:)😢

[@kowsarkhan7239]

Mr pump n dumb should just relocate the occupiers from Palestine!

[@katadam2186]

This is aloud, this isn’t aloud… meanwhile the older generations had none of the same constraints…. leading by bogus safety measures in every direction.. endowment growinin markets is what they care about

[@top3331]

Who cares BAs freedom of choice vision while unethically manipulating the market with same freedom!

[@scarfacecapital.]

Becky doing the bidding for palestinians

[@billiemook]

Admiral Ackman is our conscience! 🤑🤑

[@fabiopompeo9095]

Go Israel 🇮🇱

[@enemyofYTemployees]

Where was he during the pandemic? Otherwise he is right on this topic

[@thesadboxman]

What exactly is he referring to as speech that incites harm? Is it just the "from the _____ to the ___" slogan?

[@babyimHOME]

Need to fight back instead of taking it up the @$$ because of guilt

[@jeremyr7165]

Sarah just hit us with the lefts equivalent of the nuance of All Lives Matter...

[@BadCompany-np3yd]

Bill should be in prison for tax evasion and investment fraud.

[@MindOverMatterBjj420]

the problem with the media is you'll never get a fair opinione when the guest (ackman), interviewer (sorkin), and chairman of cnbc (hoffman) are all jews. anyway, what do you expect from a new channel that hosts creamer (a jew). p.s. bear stearns is fine.

[@w67rfhv114bjhjhbjhjvjhvyuvhjhk]

I'm telling you he's like the crybaby in the school yard. He's like one of these little Jewish boys crying about how the world's taking advantage of him. - Carl Ichan

[@guysmarket3285]

Speech about calling for a market crash while having a massive short should not be accepted speech either MR Ackman.

[@roykama3489]

Are you jealous of Bill? Sounds like it.

[@cozyslor]

fair point

[@christiancoronado]

Disagree, but hate speech against Israel should not be allowed

[@mattmason7554]

How many billion do you have? Are you going to be a guest on CNBC soon? No one cares what you say.

[@nicholas8243]

Pretty stupid comparison but ok