Recently I was watching on Netflix a show about 80s in US. It showed how funding for AIDS research was forced by activists. Though it might be a common incident

Recently I was watching on Netflix a show about 80s in US. It showed how funding for AIDS research was forced by activists. Though it might be a common incident, but it changed my perception how any type of funding seems forced either from outside by activists or by sympathizers who are in control of funding. People clearly seem to justify funding to their favorite cause as progress to humanity. However a progressive or otherwise agenda is itself purely politics.