The government is a democratic institution, it’s fairly reasonable in principle for them to try and ensure all their citizens and not some overrepresented group

The government is a democratic institution, it’s fairly reasonable in principle for them to try and ensure all their citizens and not some overrepresented group get the benefits of public funding. It is after all PUBLIC funding, every citizen should have equal influence on where it goes, which would predict it being distributed fairly equitably. > I believe that the vast majority of physicists—even the vast majority of white male physicists—want a more diverse and representative community I think the trick with this statement is the white people who get screwed by the policy won’t be employable as physicists anymore due to lack of funding so they don’t count as not wanting this since they’re won’t ever become physicists. But sure the elite white physicists will talk about how fantastic this is so they can get invited to parties, it’s not like they will ever become victims of their own rhetoric. It’s obviously the people who will be most adversely affected whose opinions who matter most, and those are the B students, not the established physicists. The other trick of course is that Asians are going to take the hit far more than Whites are but this isn’t talked about because Asians have more public sympathy. They aren’t thought of as a group with collective racial guilt to the same degree.