I don’t think the issue here is actually about whether all science grants should go only to actual scientific work. Suppose that a small amount of the grant had been spent on getting children interested in science in a completely non-woke way that had nothing to do with race or gender. I highly doubt that either the administration or you regard that as automatically and obviously horrendously inappropriate. The objection is to stuff targeted at women and minorities in particular, not to a non-zero amount of science spending being used to get kids interested in science. Describing it as just being about spending science grants only on science is just a disingenuous way of making the admin’s position sound more commonsense and apolitical than it actually is.
I don’t think the issue here is actually about whether all science grants should go only to actual scientific work. Suppose that a small amount of the grant had been spent on getting children interested in science in a completely non-woke way that had nothing to do with race or gender. I highly doubt that either the administration or you regard that as automatically and obviously horrendously inappropriate. The objection is to stuff targeted at women and minorities in particular, not to a non-zero amount of science spending being used to get kids interested in science. Describing it as just being about spending science grants only on science is just a disingenuous way of making the admin’s position sound more commonsense and apolitical than it actually is.