Comment by somenameforme
9 days ago
Trump's approval numbers do not suggest indifference, but more likely self censorship. I think most people were overwhelmingly opposed to all of this DEI stuff, but that can be disingenuously framed as saying somebody is opposed to e.g. diversity or inclusion, as opposed to them being opposed to what DEI amounts to - which is about pursuing equality of outcome, something that is in direct conflict with everything that the Social Rights Movement fought for and achieved.
I think there's also the argument that the government should not be pushing social ideology, period. Certainly not the federal government. In particular if they were just replacing the DEI funding with e.g. Jesus funding, I would be vehemently opposed to this all. But so long as they continue to just cut the funding without replacement, I'm instead vehemently supportive of it.
Self-censorship about their opinions on cutting grants that mention forbidden keywords, even if the grant outcomes have nothing to do with said keywords?
No, what you have in this thread is a typical social media misinformation circle jerk. One can download the database of selected grants and many titles have absolutely nothing to do with DEI. They're cancelling it based upon the content of the proposals. DEI adherence used to factor into proposals and it no longer does. I expect this is leading to three categories of proposals all being cancelled:
1) Proposals which were inherently about DEI stuff.
2) Proposals unrelated to DEI stuff but which were only pushed into the greenlit zone due DEI components within the proposal.
3) Proposals unrelated to DEI stuff but whose funding was increased substantially to fulfill a DEI component of the proposal.
No. This isn't about grant dollars actually being rescinded while the research is in process – you can't do that.
It's about a senator attempting to lead his own "investigation" into grants awarded during the Biden administration, and using shoddy methodology to do so.
This shouldn't be conflated, either, with how the NSF and NIH have currently flagging grant proposals in review for immediate rejection.
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Look at other oligarchies the trend to be „not interested in politics“ usually sky rockets.
> I think there's also the argument that the government should not be pushing social ideology, period.
And Category Theory is social ideology?