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他，向故乡医院捐赠7500万！却仍这个城市所谴责和抵制！
Mark Zuckerberg gave $75 million to a San Francisco hospital. The city wants to condemn him anyway.
Mark Zuckerberg向旧金山一家医院捐赠了7500万美元。这个城市却无论如何也要谴责他。
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s adopted hometown of San Francisco took the first step on Thursday to formally condemn the naming of a major hospital after him and his wife, the latest flashpoint in the debate over the proper role for billionaire philanthropy.
周四，Facebook首席执行官马克•扎克伯格(Mark Zuckerberg)的第二故乡旧金山迈出了第一步，正式谴责以他和妻子的名字命名的一家大医院，这是围绕亿万富翁慈善事业应扮演何种角色的争论的最新热点。
A panel on the city’s board of supervisors recommended the condemnation, a move that reflects the new, increasingly controversial politics of both the tech industry and of its founders. Activists on both the left and the right have grown sharply critical of big tech companies like Facebook. And simultaneously, there is a building backlash movement to charitable gifts from the mega rich.
市监督委员会的一个小组建议进行谴责，此举反映了科技行业及其创始人之间新的、越来越有争议的政治关系。左翼和右翼的活动人士对Facebook等大型科技公司的批评日益尖锐。与此同时，对超级富豪的慈善捐赠也出现了越来越强烈的反对运动。
The 3-0 vote is a manifestation of each of those crosscurrents, which both run particularly strong in liberal San Francisco. The measure has no legal force. But a symbolic, full vote of the board is expected on December 15.
3比0的投票结果是上述两种对立情绪的一种表现，在自由派的旧金山，这两种对立情绪都特别强烈。该措施没有法律效力。但预计董事会将在12月15日举行象征性的全体投票。
Five years ago, Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave $75 million to San Francisco General Hospital, the city’s sole public hospital, where Chan was a pediatrician at the time. As part of the donation, the hospital was formally renamed the Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center.
五年前，扎克伯格和他的妻子普莉希拉·陈(Priscilla Chan)向旧金山总医院(San Francisco General Hospital)捐赠了7500万美元，这是该市唯一的公立医院，当时陈还是那里的儿科医生。作为捐款的一部分，医院正式更名为普莉希拉·陈和马克·扎克伯格旧金山综合医院和创伤中心。
Since then, Zuckerberg has emerged as a political piñata as Facebook grew in size and has been dogged by cascading scandals. And Zuckerberg’s troubles in his corporate life have increasingly boomeranged onto his charitable gifts, most notably at his and his wife’s eponymous philanthropy, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
从那以后，随着Facebook规模的扩大，扎克伯格就像一个政治玩偶，并一直被一连串的丑闻所困扰。扎克伯格在公司生活中的麻烦越来越多地影响了他的慈善捐赠，最引人注目的是他和妻子的同名慈善事业——陈-扎克伯格倡议。
And so after years of fits and starts, a group of hospital nurses, anti-Facebook activists, and progressive lawmakers on San Francisco’s board of supervisors began to mobilize this summer to push back against the hospital’s name. Rather than moving to officially rename it — which contractually could require returning the $75 million gift — the group decided to push for a middle ground: to condemn the name while leaving it in place.
因此，经过多年的时起时停，一群医院护士、反facebook的积极分子和旧金山监事会中的进步议员们在今年夏天开始动员起来，反对该医院的名字。该组织没有采取正式更名的行动——根据合同，这样做可能需要退还7500万美元的礼物——而是决定采取中间立场:既要谴责这个名字，又要保留它。
That anger spilled out on Thursday before the Committee on Government Audit and Oversight, a panel on San Francisco’s board of supervisors.
周四，这种愤怒在政府审计与监督委员会(Committee on Government Audit and Oversight)面前爆发。该委员会是旧金山监管委员会的一个小组。
“San Francisco’s only public hospital should not bear the name of a person responsible for endangering public health in our country and around the world — and yet it does,” said Gordon Mar, the lead sponsor of the measure. “These are policy choices, and they have a body count.”
该措施的主要发起人戈登·马说:“旧金山唯一的公立医院不应该冠以危害我们国家和全世界公众健康的责任人的名字——然而它却这样做了。”“这些都是政策选择，他们会清点死亡人数。”
“We’re of course thankful for the gift and we’re thankful for any gift to our most important institutions during this time,” said Matt Haney, another supervisor backing it. “But that doesn’t mean that we should for forever essentially have given away advertising rights on this most essential public institution.”
“我们当然感谢这个礼物，我们感谢在这段时间给我们最重要的机构的任何礼物，”另一位支持它的主管马特·哈尼(Matt Haney)说。“但这并不意味着我们应该永远放弃这个最重要的公共机构的广告权。”
The session quickly became a pop-off session on the Facebook founder, with activists pillorying him for any corporate transgressions and downplaying the significance of his gift, which was the largest single private gift to a public hospital ever. The comments became quite caustic — for instance, one San Franciscan called him a “rich, amoral egotist who runs an extraction corporation.”
这次会议很快成为了Facebook创始人的闭门会议，活动人士嘲笑他的任何公司违法行为，并淡化他的礼物的重要性，这是迄今为止对公立医院最大的一笔私人礼物。他的评论变得相当刻薄——例如，一个旧金山人称他是一个“富有的、无道德的自我主义者，经营着一家开采公司。”
Meanwhile, charity leaders voiced concern over the precedent that the resolution could set. Defenders of high-dollar philanthropy often argue that regardless of any tax advantages or public-relations boons that the donation offers the giver, their money also does real good for the disadvantaged. And the hospital agreed in 2015 when it accepted the $75 million that it would keep the Zuckerberg name for at least 50 years.
与此同时，慈善机构的领导人也对该决议可能开创的先例表示担忧。高价慈善活动的捍卫者经常辩称，不管捐款给捐款人带来了什么税收优惠或公关好处，他们的钱也确实为弱势群体带来了好处。2015年，这家医院接受了7500万美元，同意将扎克伯格的名字保留至少50年。
Kim Meredith, the head of the hospital’s foundation, stressed that the “heartfelt gift” from Zuckerberg and Chan had made the city “a model of care” during the coronavirus pandemic.
医院基金会负责人金·梅雷迪思(Kim Meredith)强调，扎克伯格和陈的这份“衷心的礼物”使这座城市在冠状病毒大流行期间成为“护理的典范”。
“This resolution of condemnation on the naming of [the hospital] has the potential of unintended consequences and a chilling effect on past, present, and future gifts to the city,” she said. “We will need philanthropies to continue to tackle the challenges of Covid-19, health equity, and recovery in future years.”
她说:“这项谴责(医院)命名的决议可能会产生意想不到的后果，对该市过去、现在和未来的馈赠造成寒心的影响。”“未来，我们将需要慈善事业继续应对Covid-19、卫生公平和复苏等挑战。”
Meredith added in a later statement that she was “proud that the hospital now bears their names.”
梅雷迪斯在后来的声明中补充说，她“为医院现在有了他们的名字而感到骄傲”。
It is not unusual for an institution to name something after a donor who makes a particularly large gift. Another San Francisco hospital is named after a different tech billionaire, Salesforce founder Marc Benioff. San Francisco officials signed off on the Zuckerberg naming contract in 2015.
对于一个机构来说，以捐出一笔特别大的捐款的人的名字来命名某物并不稀奇。旧金山还有一家医院以另一位科技亿万富翁——Salesforce创始人马克•贝尼奥夫(Marc Benioff)的名字命名。旧金山官员在2015年签署了扎克伯格的命名合同。
But for an institution to formally condemn a donor is unusual, if not unprecedented.
但对于一个机构来说，正式谴责一个捐助者，即使不是史无前例的，也是不寻常的。
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