The irony is that it's the same non-academic organisations that are deciding those topics to get funded and who now are deciding to cut the funding. Academics

The irony is that it's the same non-academic organisations that are deciding those topics to get funded and who now are deciding to cut the funding. Academics have to apply for funding and one big criteria over the years has been it's "social impact". So there's three things. The politics of those in charge of funding. The change of academia to only allow research deemed socially useful (utilitarianism). And the third is the co-adoption of researchers themselves. As politics change the response should be to change the criteria and agenda of funding to make it less radical not to cut the funding. Furthermore these organisations have, over the years enlarged and entrenched themselves. This is why millions are spent on thousands of people to monitor DEI of the academics.