> Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period This is not true. If I submit a project to study the large-scale effect of DEI policies in

> Instead they are simply stripping ideological requirements, period This is not true. If I submit a project to study the large-scale effect of DEI policies in institutions, that will get rejected because "anti-DEI" is in the current government's idelogy, as written down in presidential orders. They are not simply removing the previous ideology and leaving a void in place. There are no voids in power structures.