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#RuthBaderGinsburg's family finds awarding the #RBG #WomensLeadershipAward by the #OppermanFoundation to #ElonMusk, #RupertMurdoch, #MichaelMilken, #SylvesterStallone, and #MarthaStewart an affront.

They say it #dishonors the #memory of the #late #SupremeCourt #Justice.

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate

https://deadline.com/2024/03/ruth-bader-ginsburgs-family-calls-musk-murdoch-milken-stallone-amp-stewart-getting-award-bearing-late-justices-name-an-affront-1235861885/

"Opperman Foundation cancels RBG award ceremony that would have honored Musk, Murdoch after family’s outcry"

So, they cancelled the *ceremony*, but did they cancel the *recognition*? 🤔

https://us.cnn.com/2024/03/18/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-award-ceremony-cancelled-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch/index.html

#RBG #Opperman #OppermanFoundation #awards #recognition

The fact that the #OppermanFoundation considered it appropriate to grant an award originally created to honor women to *any* man is pathetic. But to grant an award named for #RuthBaderGinsburg to #ElonMusk and #RupertMurdoch is *beyond* pathetic. Even though #Opperman has now reconsidered, this farce illustrates how deeply #sexism remains ingrained in the U.S., even this far into the 21st century.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/18/rbg-elon-musk-rupert-murdoch

#RBG

Not from The Onion:

This year's #RuthBaderGinsburg Leadership Award went to #ElonMusk and #RupertMurdoch, among others.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/2024/03/15/ruth-bader-ginsburg-award-backlash/
(#paywalled)

The #RBG family is pissed, saying in a statement that the #OppermanFoundation, which grants the award, “has strayed far from the original mission of the award and from what Justice Ginsburg stood for.”

#USPolitics