It's hard to think of an action more damaging to American greatness, or insulting to American freedom, than cutting off cancer research to punish a university for failing to align politically with the current government.
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"Was DEI a public ethics exercise or a massive jobs program for incompetents?"
The incompetent (stupid) are easily controlled. Lacking experience in management they perceived it to be license to control others which further eroded the workplace.
When then person in charge lacks the intelligence of their subordinates they become angry and the only thing that motivates them is destruction.
In my former career I worked at a variety of corporations, sole proprietorships, partnerships, the federal gove…
NGOs are a form of government control themselves, competing with the government for influence. They, like all corporations, are not private, but are spawned by the government and its taxes and regulations.