RBG Award Gala Canceled After Justice's Family, Barbra Streisand Denounce Honorees
RBG Award Gala Canceled After Justice's Family, Barbra Streisand Denounce Honorees
Barbra Streisand and the family of Ruth B. Ginsburg denounced the Dwight Opperman Foundation for honoring Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch with an award.
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“This year we selected leaders in different fields. We honored men for the first time. We thought RBG’s teachings regarding equality should be practiced. We did not consider politics,” Julie Opperman, the chairperson of the org, said in a statement. “Instead, we focused on leaders, who, in their own way, have made significant contributions to society.”
I actually don't think that the issue was that it was being given to men. I think the issue was that if you think Elon Musk and Rupert Murdoch (!) are the people that Ruth Bader Ginsberg would have wanted to honor, someone needs to maroon you on an island somewhere all alone where you can't infect the others.
It's not that it was given to men, it's that it was given to dicks.
To be fair, the criteria didn't say positive contributions to society. It just says significant contributions.
In 2019, Ginsburg helped establish the award with the Opperman Foundation to celebrate “women who exemplify human qualities of empathy and humility.” The organization later opened the award to men, renaming the trophy as the Leadership Award while claiming to aim for gender equality.
Ah yes, because when I think of empathy and humility I definitely think of Musk and Murdock.
I was only talking about the quoted passage because I think it's funny in a sad way that the foundation deliberately left out the original criteria in their statement and that they don't seem to care whether the contributions to society created a positive impact.
Let me be clear. The only award those two deserve is the "Fuck you, Shitbag" award. If I had to guess, I'd bet they were chosen for the award by making significant contributions to someone's pocket book.
Yeah, the problem is that if they asked me to make a list of the top 10 people who definitely should not get this award, there’s a good chance I would have put these two dudes on that list. They might as well nominate Donald Trump at this point.
Koch brothers top of the list for next year's award.
Fortunately, one will have to receive his posthumously.