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The criticism is that you are letting an Epstein character buy your organization's credibility and social capital, not that the financial capital isn't being pu
by shuckles 7y ago
The criticism is that you are letting an Epstein character buy your organization's credibility and social capital, not that the financial capital isn't being put to its best and highest use.
- tomp 7y agoIndeed, which is why you should keep his name off the donor list (and any buildings), and/or publicly disavow his (other) actions. The problem isn’t “donating money”. The problem is “selling something” (be that influence and prestige in case of Epstein, or equity and future profits in case of Saudi money). Rapists that donate are better than rapists that don’t donate. Disagreeing with that is a classical case of the ad hominem fallacy (“you’re bad therefore everything you say / do is bad”). In case of Epstein an additional problem was that he was a powerful rapist. But the proposition that his power came from donations is naive. Power and donations have a common cause - money.