Why did I think they simply canceled all of them. Nope it was discriminatory

March 07, 2026 - 20:38 UTC

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These cancellations were so much more horrible for other people than for me personally, as my fellowship was coming to an end. Huge losses to hundreds of people and dozens of long term projects and ongoing relationships. The loss to humanities has been incalculable
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I was in the same boat as you: 3/4 of the way through the funding cycle. Wrote about this here at the time. BTW I am 99.9% certain I personally got under the skin of NEH dudes, as reported in the NYT article. The link to “authoritarian” bit is an article that quotes me. forward.com/opinion/711685/trump-neh-grants-canceled-antisemitism/
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Ctrl F fascism. These fuckers. The doge children were always ignorant little fucks but I am surprised that they found such a great foot soldier in McDonald to help carry out the massacre.
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Also, wow, this McDonald fellow at the agency who had been there for years and just rolled over. What a betrayal.
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These people would like to eliminate the critical thinking that comes through the humanities. Well, not the little pissant who cancelled it, he knows very little about anything, but the people who put the EO in front of Donald to sign.
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Thank you. I lost my job because of this. And ChatGPT didn't even rate our grant as DEI, but it was a project about female philosophers, so....
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Here is the spreadsheet DOGE had ChatGPT produce, to determine which grants were too DEI www.historians.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/248-11.pdf
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Equality and citizenship?So the constitution is too woke?
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And most egregiously, insufficiently theocratic.
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you thought that because the complaint in the Oregon Humanities lawsuit said that! which is also why *I* thought it and how I covered it in the articles I wrote about this last year! Jesus Christ this is a shitshow, did they all just lie in their depositions to make it look less bad????
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In Russian messaging,
white is black and
black is white.
Now in GOP USA,
it is the same.
www.eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-and-justice-department-warn-against-unlawful-dei-related-discrimination

www.eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2025-03/One_Pagers_2025-2_%28002%29_508.pdf
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And also some sweeping cancellations like the FPIRI program awards (to JCB, AAS, etc). I don't have words.
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I’m so so so disgusted all over again. Hopefully some of the funding will be restored but it has been devastating for so many people and projects
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Thinking I should use all those in my bio for no reason
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Just obeying orders. I am sure that will turn out well?!
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These anecdotes distill the attitude pretty succinctly.

Can't study a Klan massacre because it's "Black history" (this would be news to the Klan!). Can't study labor in Nazi concentration camps, because it would "amplify" Jewish voices.
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I threw up in my mouth a little when I read "voices of the females." >.<
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“Equality”?

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal . . .”

Are we knocking out the Declaration of Independence?
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