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1) I was asking if it isn’t problematic that a few elite schools get a shit ton more money than other schools. In my post before I’d asked if such a distribution wasn’t the opposite of encouraging DEI.
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This highlights one of the biggest problems with social equity mindsets. Research grants are an investment. If you're trying to cure cancer, you don't send a hundred million to Ball State to pretend there's a semblance of parity with Harvard. Harvard is superior for variety of reasons, so instead of DEI, focus on ROI. Anything else is just malinvestment.
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2) My second thought was that a ton of voters have got to be seeing how much money is going to universities that wouldn’t let their families take a shit on campus, and thinking “thank you President Trump!”
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Crab Theory seems pervasive these days.
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The second was just an observation that in Trump’s seemingly crazed attacks he may actually be building his block.
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Again, it comes down to precision, which is missing in this admin. You can't punish the cancer research scientist at Harvard for the sins of the wingnuts in the Gender Studies, Anthropology, and Political Science departments who think Hamas had an argument but just went a little too far on October 7, or we're a culture of closeted Bull Connors operating a Handmaid's tale patriarchy out of one of Andrea Dworkin's fever dreams. We can walk and chew gum. We can cut off funds to the frivolous while continuing them to the important.
But it takes work, and nimble thinking. None of which a performance artist like Trump, or his misfit band of merry players, has any interest in undertaking. They're all about the clickbait, owning the libs. It's so beyond stupid and childish I'm totally out of denigrating superlatives.
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