Canadian Politics Today

From the Post article of the prof's grant:

Patanjali Kambhampati, a professor in the chemistry department at Montreal’s McGill University, believes the death knell for the latest grant was a line in the application form where he was asked about hiring staff based on diversity and inclusion considerations. He says his mistake was maintaining that he would hire on merit any research assistant who was qualified, regardless of their identity.

“We will hire the most qualified people based upon their skills and mutual interests,” Kambhampati wrote on the application.

“I’ve had two people say that was the kiss of death,” said Kambhampati. “I thought I was trying to be nice saying that if you were interested and able I’d hire you and that’s all that mattered. I don’t care about the colour of your skin. I’m interested in hiring someone who wants to work on the project and is good at it.”
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But his application for a $450,000 grant this month from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) was turned down because, the council said, “the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion considerations in the application were deemed insufficient.”

This man did not get a grant because he's an anti-racist.

Equality of opportunity is mattering less and less, people are becoming more and more focused on equality of outcome.  And if you don't have equality of outcome between groups, racism/sexism/oppression is assumed to be occurring, and discriminatory hiring practices are becoming a more common tool to help achieve this equality of outcome.  Apparently asians make higher incomes than whites in Canada because white people are oppressed?  That's obviously nonsense and proves my point.