$500 million Harvard megadonor halts donations, says elite schools produce 'whiny snowflakes'

[SouthBayDem]

Source: CNN

New York
CNN
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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.

Griffin, the founder of hedge fund Citadel, said he is no longer supporting Harvard financially but would like that to change.

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/30/money/harvard-ken-griffin-halts-donations/index.html

[OAITW r.2.0]

1. Fuck him.

[NoMoreRepugs]

2. Says one of the galaxies most entitled lily white snowflakes.

[Freethinker65]

3. Yeah. Waste your money on Liberty, Hillsdale, and DeSantis U.

Become a laughing stock when buildings dedicated to disinformation and bizarre studies like the positive attributes of slavery and white rule, and anti-wokeness 101 become your legacy.

[EYESORE 9001]

4. I get the feeling

that he’s 👍🏽 with that legacy.

[highplainsdem]

5. Aww, he's just thinking he could have bought a few more homes with that $500 million:

2019 story:

https://www.6sqft.com/billionaire-ken-griffin-buys-238m-nyc-penthouse-the-most-expensive-home-sold-in-the-u-s/

Billionaire Ken Griffin has closed on a penthouse at 220 Central Park South for $238 million, setting the record for the most expensive home ever sold in the United States, as the Wall Street Journal first reported. Griffin, who founded Citadel, first signed the contract to buy a 24,000-square-foot unit at the under-construction tower in 2015. The hedge fund mogul reportedly picked up the pricey digs as “a place to stay when he’s in town,” since his company is looking to expand its footprint in New York City.

Since 2015, it was reported that the penthouse at Robert A.M. Stern’s 220 Central Park South tower would set a staggering sales record. 6sqft reported at the time that the unit, dubbed the “billionaire’s bunker,” could ask between $150 and $175 million. Building documents filed in 2016 last listed the 24,000-square-foot, four-floor unit for $250 million.

-snip-

This is not the first time the billionaire has closed on a record-breaking real estate deal. The WSJ reported that Griffin recently bought several floors of a condo building in Chicago for $58.75 million, a Miami penthouse in 2015 for $60 million, and earlier this month he bought a London property for $122 million.

[moniss]

6. Basically when you hear hedge fund

it is safe to use the common definition of "people with lots of money looking for opportunities to screw people out of money". Yes I know there are supposedly a few that aren't so bad but they seem to be very few and far between.

[orleans]

7. he's a douche. and a whiney douchebag republican. and leaves a douchebag trail wherever he goes. nt

[Beausoleil]

8. Whiney snowflakes

Like Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Elaine Stefanik, etc.

Harvard should be so proud.

[live love laugh]

10. Whiney like himself.

[Hotler]

17. And Kevin Sorbo. nt

[RobinA]

21. The Ivies

have a lot to be proud of these days. Their products are screwing us up bad.

[SunSeeker]

9. Sounds like he's projecting. nt

[Pas-de-Calais]

11. Pay more taxes snowflake

[Roy Rolling]

12. Aww

He’s just mad he didn’t go to M.I.T. next door. 😂

Fuck him and his money.

[no_hypocrisy]

13. What Griffin really means by cutting off the money:

1. He only was supporting legacy admissions, not universal admissions.

2. He wanted an institution that promoted a certain demographic: privileged and wealthy white males.

3. He wasn't interested in graduates with a well-rounded liberal arts curriculum.

4. He was afraid that these "whiny snowflakes" were more than undeserved scholarship. It would spread to the privileged group. (See #2.) And that would make them unfit to run corporations, go into government, etc. Heaven forbid that these kids have critical minds and compassion for others.

[LiberalFighter]

20. Why doesn't he start his own university?

[FakeNoose]

22. Yes and where does he get the term "snowflakes" anyway?

He must be watching Faux Noise 24/7/365. Fuck this guy....

[mopinko]

14. citadel had a terrible rep in chgo for chewing up employees and spitting them out.

my ex worked in the biz, in the tech end. a couple of his coworkers went to work for them. got huge signing bonuses, big pay. they burned out in a year.
asshole to his core.

[JI7]

15. I think these large donors are part of the problem

[jvill]

16. Hedge funders being the absolutely whiniest snowflakes of them all.

N/t

[LiberalFighter]

18. Universities should be more self sufficient.

[BradBo]

19. No money till they teach them to love Trump.

[Happy Hoosier]

23. The ruling class wants to own higher education. NT

[CousinIT]

24. IOW "I don't pay to have students educated. I want them indoctrinated in RW-think! Or ELSE!" n/t