Mark Cuban mocks X under Elon Musk as his 'little echo chamber,' defends DEI stance
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Billionaire Mark Cuban blasted fellow billionaire Elon Musk over his stance on the merits of DEI on the "What Now?" podcast on Thursday.
Musk recently kicked off the debate on X — the platform formerly known as Twitter — when he wrote that DEI was "just another word for racism" and "shame on anyone who uses it." When X user Ed Krassenstein mentioned that he thought DEI had major flaws, Musk responded that "discrimination on the basis of race, which DEI does, is literally the definition of racism."
Cuban, a longtime star of the popular show "Shark Tank," defended the merits of DEI, writing "there are people of various races, ethnicities, orientation, etc that are regularly excluded from hiring consideration" and that by including them "we can find people that are more qualified. The loss of DEI-Phobic companies is my gain."
Later, Musk replied to Cuban’s post, "Cool, so when should we expect to see a short white/Asian women on the Mavs?," referring to the Dallas Mavericks, the NBA team Cuban owned for years before recently selling his majority stake.
