EVERYTHING should be based on Merit. Not the color of your skin, your sex/gender, where you are from or who you want to have sex with. Archive: https://archive.today/pS6HX From the post: >>A federal government health agency is under fire for a $241 million taxpayer-funded scheme to promote scientists from minority backgrounds who tick DEI checklists, rather than the best candidates. Conservatives are taking aim at the National Institutes of Health's Faculty Institutional Recruitment for Sustainable Transformation (First) scheme, which pays universities to hire biomedical researchers in a drive for 'inclusive excellence.' The right-leaning National Association of Scholars (NAS) accuses the NIH of putting an 'ideological agenda' ahead of quality research, and the transparency watchdog Open the Books calls it a waste of taxpayers' money.