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I’m very torn. Obviously USAID, NSF and academia in general do valuable things. But when organizations get hijacked and used as a slush fund to fund naked ideol

I’m very torn. Obviously USAID, NSF and academia in general do valuable things. But when organizations get hijacked and used as a slush fund to fund naked ideological activities and organizations barely related to the original purpose, I’m not surprised when the eventual response is to just hack and slash. I wish it was done more thoughtfully and carefully, but that doesn’t appear to be a choice. Just a choice of funding hostile NGOs and academics who endorse discrimination in education, employment, health care and even law nowadays or the current mess. It all sucks and I don’t have any solutions other than focusing on my career and family.

stavros 1y ago
I'm out of the loop, can you give some context as to what you're talking about? What were they funding?
- asacrowflies 1y ago
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  - HideousKojima 1y ago
    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions... Educational institutions that have been banned from practicing racial discrimination in admissions (such as all public universities in California since the 90's) have insisted on continuing to find other ways to covertly racially discriminate in admissions. It's clear from their actions that racial discrimination in admissions is a fundamental value for these institutions, and they should not receive any taxpayer funding until they stop such disgusting and bigoted behavior. Stop carrying water for them. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185226895/heres-what-happened-when-affirmative-action-ended-at-california-public-colleges https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185226895/heres-what-happene...
wvenable 1y ago
> But when organizations get hijacked I haven't seen any reasonable evidence on this. I'm not saying that evidence doesn't exist, it's just everything that I've heard so far as been debunked. The current administration has been shown to lie and exaggerate over and over to justify these actions so I don't know why anyone would assume they're telling the truth about this.

stavros 1y ago

I'm out of the loop, can you give some context as to what you're talking about? What were they funding?

asacrowflies 1y ago
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- HideousKojima 1y ago
  https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions_v._Harvard https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Students_for_Fair_Admissions... Educational institutions that have been banned from practicing racial discrimination in admissions (such as all public universities in California since the 90's) have insisted on continuing to find other ways to covertly racially discriminate in admissions. It's clear from their actions that racial discrimination in admissions is a fundamental value for these institutions, and they should not receive any taxpayer funding until they stop such disgusting and bigoted behavior. Stop carrying water for them. https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185226895/heres-what-happened-when-affirmative-action-ended-at-california-public-colleges https://www.npr.org/2023/06/30/1185226895/heres-what-happene...

wvenable 1y ago

> But when organizations get hijacked I haven't seen any reasonable evidence on this. I'm not saying that evidence doesn't exist, it's just everything that I've heard so far as been debunked. The current administration has been shown to lie and exaggerate over and over to justify these actions so I don't know why anyone would assume they're telling the truth about this.