As Donald Trump runs roughshod over DEI (and rightly so), the Left's objections to the dismantling of actual system racism get more and more hysterical.
Mother Jones contributed to the insanity with this gem:
“We are very much at risk of losing an entire generation of researchers.”
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) February 15, 2025
If left unchecked, Trump’s unprecedented crackdown on DEI, scientists worry, will reshape who can participate in science for years to come. https://t.co/hDMXHboGMo
Early medical care during pregnancy can prevent complications, and lead to healthier babies and parents-to-be. In 2022, Evangeline Warren, a sociology PhD student at Ohio State University, received a 'diversity supplement' grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to study medical mistrust among pregnant people. Over two years, she interviewed dozens of patients across Ohio who’d expressed discomfort about going to the doctor—gathering information which, she hopes, will improve medical visits, and ultimately, save lives.
Yet if she applied for this project in 2025, it’s unclear if it ever would happen. The NIH grant she’d received, which had been around since 1989, is typically given to hundreds of researchers every year to supplement ongoing NIH-funded research and support underrepresented groups’ participation in the sciences. (In her application, for instance, Warren flagged that she is multiracial and has a disability.)
But within days of Donald Trump’s second stint as president, the NIH removed or altered webpages about the diversity supplement program and stopped accepting applications, marking the grant as expired,' only to apparently reinstate them later—sparking concern about the future of the program. (NIH didn’t respond to a request for comment from Mother Jones.)
The only driving factor behind scientific research should be science. Not race, not disability, not gender.
SCIENCE.
Understand that Mother Jones is mad not because science will be harmed, but because the Left will not be able to use 'follow the science' as a cudgel for their political agenda.
I accidentally subscribed to MJ when I didn't uncheck a box on a ticket order. I waited for my mailman so I could apologize to him. He said "Happens all the time. I'll just toss it in the trash at the station like I do the rest of them." He was very cool about it.
— 30 Helens Agree: We Aren’t Tired Of Winning Yet (@30_Helens_Redux) February 15, 2025
Not worth the paper its written on.
Implying that “reshaping” who can participate in science towards THE BEST SCIENTISTS will somehow exclude groups of people is itself blatant racism. There’s nothing stopping any group from competing for excellence.
— Phil D. Grasshopper (@GrasshopperPhil) February 15, 2025
Yes. The Left is very racist, and they think that certain groups can't excel without government intervention and DEI mandates.
So... without racial discrimination and explicit efforts to hire only people who meet certain preferred characteristics, there won't be any more science.
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) February 15, 2025
Do you hear yourselves? https://t.co/oIE2wChTDU
They do not hear themselves.
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