What is this man doing?
GEORGE YANCOPOULOS, WHOSE NET WORTH IS ESTIMATED AT $1.4 BILLION, INVITES A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT TO SAY SOMETHING TO HIS FACE. (YOUTUBE)
George Yancopoulos, the billionaire co-founder of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, stood recently before the graduating class of Yorktown High School, gathered in their cars to minimize the risk of Covid-19, to deliver what the local superintendent believed would be “a message of unity.”
“I believe Black lives matter,” Yancopoulos said, “though I do not think it’s a crime to say that all lives matter.” He went on to describe police officers, subjects of a nationwide reckoning over racist violence, as “convenient scapegoats” for larger societal problems, dismissed “wokeness” on social media, and challenged the teenagers before him to “understand what a story is and what it is not.” Then, when car-bound attendees began honking their horns in apparent protest, Yancopoulos, who is 61, paused his prepared remarks to say, “Whoever’s honking your horn, you wanna come up to the stage for a second if you have something to say?”
None of the assembled 18-year-olds took him up on the offer.
This did not go over well in Yorktown. In the words of one parent who spoke to Forbes, “the graduates were hoping to be uplifted and rewarded, not alienated by some guy with an axe to grind.” That guy happens to be the public face of his $62 billion company’s quest to treat Covid-19. It remains unclear why he thought this was a good idea.
“I believe Black lives matter,” Yancopoulos said, “though I do not think it’s a crime to say that all lives matter.” He went on to describe police officers, subjects of a nationwide reckoning over racist violence, as “convenient scapegoats” for larger societal problems, dismissed “wokeness” on social media, and challenged the teenagers before him to “understand what a story is and what it is not.” Then, when car-bound attendees began honking their horns in apparent protest, Yancopoulos, who is 61, paused his prepared remarks to say, “Whoever’s honking your horn, you wanna come up to the stage for a second if you have something to say?”
None of the assembled 18-year-olds took him up on the offer.
This did not go over well in Yorktown. In the words of one parent who spoke to Forbes, “the graduates were hoping to be uplifted and rewarded, not alienated by some guy with an axe to grind.” That guy happens to be the public face of his $62 billion company’s quest to treat Covid-19. It remains unclear why he thought this was a good idea.
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