Billionaires Confront DEI

The explosion of anti-Semitism on college campuses has triggered long-overdue scrutiny of “diversity, equity and inclusion” (DEI) programs. Billionaire Bill Ackman, an outspoken critic of former Harvard President Claudine Gay, recently posted a long critique of DEI’s ideology.

Billionaires Elon Musk and Mark Cuban, who owns the NBA’s Dallas Mavericks, also went at it. Musk suggested DEI was just another form of racism, which it is, at the expense of merit. Cuban defended it as “good for business.”

Musk then replied, “Cool, so when should we expect to see short white/Asian women on the [Mavericks]?”

I’m glad to see people like Ackman and Musk confronting the neo-Marxist ideology behind DEI. We need more people like them to use the tremendous influence they have to fight the leftist rot on college campuses and in our country today.

A more important point than the DEI controversy, however, relates to another topic Musk addressed recently – the fate of the West.

After the popular British black rapper Zuby posted that Christianity was the essential “foundation” of Western Civilization, which won’t survive in a “cultural and moral vacuum,” Musk replied, “I think you’re probably right.”

In a time when so many pastors are so afraid of engaging in the culture war, I’m encouraged to see the world’s most influential billionaire taking a stand on these critical issues like free speech, resisting neo-Marxist ideology and defending Christianity and Western Civilization.