Citadel CEO Ken Griffin recently spoke at the MFA Network Miami conference and explained why he is no longer offering financial support to Harvard. The billionaire suggested that he will not be making any gifts until schools like Harvard abandon the DEI agenda.
Griffin also made reference to campus support for Hamas and mentioned ridiculous concepts like ‘microaggressions,’ calling the students ‘whiny snowflakes.’
$500 million Harvard megadonor halts donations, says elite schools produce ‘whiny snowflakes’Hedge fund billionaire Ken Griffin, who has donated more than $500 million to Harvard University over the years, has halted contributions to his alma mater and claimed elite schools produce “whiny snowflakes.”Griffin, one of the richest people in the world, joins a growing list of donors to Harvard, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia and other top schools who have decided to close their checkbooks.At a conference in Miami on Tuesday, Griffin expressed deep frustration with the state of American universities, including the disastrous testimony before Congress by the presidents of Harvard, MIT and UPenn…“Until Harvard makes it very clear that they’re going to resume their role as [educators of] young American men and women to be leaders, to be problem solvers, to take on difficult issues, I am not interested in supporting the institution,” Griffin told CNBC’s Leslie Picker during the MFA Network Miami conference…“Will America’s elite universities get back to the roots of educating American children — young adults — to be the future leaders of our country or are they going to maintain being lost in the wilderness of microaggressions and a DEI agenda that has no real endgame,” Griffin said.Griffin suggested that students at elite schools are “just caught up in the rhetoric of oppressor and oppressee and… just like whiny snowflakes.”
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Griffin is not alone in this. Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman has been trying to force changes at Harvard for months now.
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