James Murdoch Pledges $1 Million to Anti-Defamation League as Trump Protest
Source: NYT
BRIDGEWATER, N.J. James Murdoch, the chief executive of 21st Century Fox and the son of a frequent ally of President Trumps, condemned the presidents performance after the violence in Charlottesville, Va., and pledged to donate $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League.
In an email on Thursday, a copy of which was obtained by The New York Times and confirmed as authentic by a spokesman for Mr. Murdochs company, the Fox scion gave an extraordinarily candid statement against the white supremacist sentiment that swept through Virginia last weekend. It was also the most outspoken that a member of the Murdoch family has been in response to the weeks events.
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Im writing to you in a personal capacity, as a concerned citizen and a father. It has not been my habit to widely offer running commentary on current affairs, nor to presume to weigh in on the events of a given day save those that might be of particular or specific concern to 21CF and my colleagues, he wrote. But what we watched this last week in Charlottesville and the reaction to it by the President of the United States concern all of us as Americans and free people.
He added: These events remind us all why vigilance against hate and bigotry is an eternal obligation a necessary discipline for the preservation of our way of life and our ideals. The presence of hate in our society was appallingly laid bare as we watched swastikas brandished on the streets of Charlottesville and acts of brutal terrorism and violence perpetrated by a racist mob. I cant even believe I have to write this: standing up to Nazis is essential; there are no good Nazis. Or Klansmen, or terrorists. Democrats, Republicans, and others must all agree on this, and it compromises nothing for them to do so.
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Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/17/us/politics/james-murdoch-trump-donation-anti-defamation-league.html
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(129,440 posts)Sorry Murdoch jr., it's not the "Democrats" that are the problem. When your family stops funding the GOP elected officials who court these scum (and notably pushing them on Faux), then maybe you will stop being a part of the problem.