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Regeneron Co-Founder Causes Stir at Yorktown Graduation with 'All Lives Matter' Comments
Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:44 am
Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:44 am
I came across this "jewel" while doing some premarket research on REGN
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Regeneron Co-Founder Causes Stir at Yorktown Graduation with 'All Lives Matter' Comments
By Brian Marchhauser
June 27, 2020
YORKTOWN, N.Y. - During his keynote speech on Saturday, Dr. George Yancopoulos, co-founder and chief scientific officer of Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, challenged Yorktown High School graduates to “question everything,” including the “popular narratives” behind social justice movements.
“I believe Black lives matter, though it should not be a crime to say all lives matter,” Yancopoulos said.
The Yorktown Heights resident said police are being “scapegoated” for much larger issues behind systemic inequities, citing high rates of deaths of Black people from diabetes and violence and during childbirth.
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He continued by saying, “Widespread hate and prejudice against all cops is just as wrong as hate and prejudice against any ethnic group.”
The graduates and their families, adhering to social distancing guidelines, were parked in their cars facing the stage located in the parking lot. At one point during the speech, somebody laid on their car horn for dozens of seconds, prompting Yancopoulos to stop talking.
“Whoever is honking their horn, you want to come up to the stage for a second if you have something to say?” Yancopoulos said, calling it “another act of cowardness.”
“Here in America, we have systematically, over centuries, denied the path to success for so many Black children by denying them the very keys to the kingdom that I was so lucky to have,” Yancopoulos said, citing the destruction of Black families and a fading belief in the American Dream. “We have to admit that we have destroyed that belief for so many and we have to restore that belief and that dream.”
He challenged the graduates to seek solutions to complicated issues of race and inequality, and to “keep bias and prejudice from tearing us apart and scorching earth between us.”
“Instead we should be fighting to unite in our common humanity, realizing that we are not each other’s enemies, and that we are all in this together,” he said.
In a statement posted later Saturday, Superintendent Dr. Ron Hattar said he thought Yancopoulos would be a good choice as a speaker “in light of the pandemic” as Regeneron is working toward a treatment for COVID-19.
"However, unexpected comments were made in that address that do not align with the principles of the Yorktown Central School District," Hattar said. "After speaking to (Yancopoulos) moments ago, I understood that he intended to promote a message of unity, but his message did not do so.
"I apologize for any hurt caused by the keynote speaker's remarks," Hattar continued. "Graduation is intended to recognize the wonderful accomplishments of the Class of 2020 during their journey though the Yorktown Central School District, and anything that takes away from that recognition is not acceptable."
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Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:54 am to NC_Tigah
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“I believe Black lives matter, though it should not be a crime to say all lives matter,”
This statement should not be controversial at all.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 4:56 am to TDsngumbo
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This statement should not be controversial at all.
and yet it is.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:02 am to TDsngumbo
It’s all about a political agenda. Black lives only matter when a white cop takes one. Black on black just kill away.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:13 am to NC_Tigah
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Hattar
People like him are the problem. Shameful. Apologizing for absolutely nothing. But I guess he’s probably offended himself.
Nothing Yancopoulos said should be controversial at all. But even if he had said something “controversial”, the reaction by the students, parents, and administrators is fricking pathetic. They’ve been programmed to simply shut down, stop listening and display outrage. They are children. When will this nonsense end, I don’t know, but the sane people aren’t going to take it much longer.
People need to start standing up. They can’t fire everyone who disagrees with their Marxist mindset.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:28 am to NC_Tigah
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systemic inequities, citing high rates of deaths of Black people from diabetes and violence and during childbirth
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“Here in America, we have systematically, over centuries, denied the path to success for so many Black children by denying them the very keys to the kingdom that I was so lucky to have,” Yancopoulos said, citing the destruction of Black families and a fading belief in the American Dream. “We have to admit that we have destroyed that belief for so many and we have to restore that belief and that dream.”
So he bows down on pretty much everything.
But says
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“I believe Black lives matter, though it should not be a crime to say all lives matter,” Yancopoulos said.
They're not happy unless there is full submission to the mob.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:31 am to TigerDeBaiter
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hey can’t fire everyone who disagrees with their Marxist mindset.
The history of the Soviet Union and China would indicate they will do much worse than have you fired.
More like firing squad.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 5:54 am to NC_Tigah
What a wimp for superintendent
Posted on 6/29/20 at 6:08 am to NC_Tigah
Every time you hear a liberal say that they want to have "a conversation," just remember this story. The last thing liberals want is a conversation. What they really want is forced indoctrination using threats and extortion.
And when you hear them say that we just have to “listen," what they really mean is shut the f*ck up, don’t bring your facts, plain common f*cking sense, or statistics into this indoctrination session, and if you do we will f*cking destroy you.
And when you hear them say that we just have to “listen," what they really mean is shut the f*ck up, don’t bring your facts, plain common f*cking sense, or statistics into this indoctrination session, and if you do we will f*cking destroy you.
This post was edited on 6/29/20 at 7:28 am
Posted on 6/29/20 at 6:18 am to TDsngumbo
To BLM white people are the enemy.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 6:22 am to Robin Masters
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hey can’t fire everyone who disagrees with their Marxist mindset.
The history of the Soviet Union and China would indicate they will do much worse than have you fired.
More like firing squad.
They don't use the firing squad. They just pummel you to death.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 6:31 am to MMauler
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conversation
Your comments are spot on. The Marxist, progressive, socialist, leftist, BLM, Antifa amalgamation housed under the Democrat Party has zero interest in conversing or listening.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:02 am to MMauler
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Every time you hear a liberal say that they want to have "a conversation," just remember this story. The last thing liberals want is a conversation.
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:06 am to NC_Tigah
The guy is the founder and chief scientific officer of a multi billion dollar pharma company. What the frick is he doing at a high school graduation ceremony?
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:08 am to NC_Tigah
the left is amazingly hateful and irrational
anyone who can't see that is really dumb, like barely functional retard stupid, or deluded and being willfully obtuse
anyone who can't see that is really dumb, like barely functional retard stupid, or deluded and being willfully obtuse
Posted on 6/29/20 at 8:12 am to TexasTiger89
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It’s all about a political agenda. Black lives only matter when a white cop takes one. Black on black just kill away.
or when blacks kill whites or commit crimes against whites
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