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[–]Q-Continuum-kin 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

The result was the paper titled, "Attack Helicopters and White Supremacy

And yo know some part of the outrageous cost of college right now is associated with paying for these departments to exist.

[–]xoenix[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I wonder about that. I would think a lot of the gender, CRT and other neo-Marxist postmodern stuff is funded by billionaires and NGOs (eg. Arcus, Pritzkers, Soros, etc.) It's possible those grants help subsidize the rest of the university, I'm not sure how it adds up. Maybe on the whole it makes everything more expensive.

[–]Q-Continuum-kin 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I'm not sure how it adds up. Maybe on the whole it makes everything more expensive.

That's my point, that it adds up. When I was at a university LGBT center i found out that they had too much money and the director comes in and starts asking the students to make lists of stuff to buy. They wanted a bunch of art and things to put up in the center in order to spend all the money allocated to the department. I asked why they were trying to waste money. The response I got was that they needed to spend the entire budget or the university would not agree to yearly increases and might even reduce the budget next year. I said "i guess this is why my tuition keeps going up." One of the many reasons they didn't like me in there.

What was happening was this administration group was trying to increase spending year to year to prove the importance of the LGBT center and eventually after I was gone they convinced the school to build a stand alone building just for that purpose. It's the same circular logic that all the big organizations use. Demand high salary, claim high salary is proof of importance, make up a bunch of issues that need money to fight against, claim the job is existential and makes your job difficult, repeat.

I work in a big company and our spending works totally different. They give us a budget which is usually too small then at the end of the year they suddenly announce that there is X dollars left over in the budget somehow.