Well said brother!
Hedge-fund manager Clifford Asness in an Oct. 16 letter to University of Pennsylvania president Elizabeth Magill:
Yes, this is one of those letters. . . . I have long been dismayed at the drift away from true freedom of thought, expression, and speech. . . . Then, a few weeks ago, Penn’s hosting an antisemitic Burning Man festival pushed matters further. I’m 100% for free speech but not asymmetrical free speech where some have it and some don’t. Imagine Penn’s action if that event was as anti-anyone else other than Jews!? . . . Most distressing to me was your first statement making vague equivalences between the intentional murder of children (and others) by terrorists and the accidental injury to children that sadly occurs when murdering terrorists hide behind children to escape justice.
I’ve recently finished a large five-year pledge to Penn and will not be considering another until . . . change is evident. I do not like making something like this about money—but it appears to be one of the only paths that has any hope of mattering.
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