The UW will cut “gender studies” or some such crap, then raise hell about how Republicans and Walker are forcing sexism into the university. Just like when local school boards are forced to make cuts, they always threaten to cut football and band.
It’s like in Blazing Saddles where the Sheriff takes himself hostage and threatens to kill himself.
Threaten to cut PBS’s funding and they cry about having to kill Big Bird. Despite Seasame St being a revenue generator for them.
Partially shut down the government and open air memorials get barricaded and guarded, despite it costing more than just leaving them open as normal.
Anything that threatens the Progressive funding conveyor belt is met with them treatening to go after and even going after the things that cause the most visible pain. Even though doing so is both illogical and unnecessary.
The purpose of Universities is to educate. Thats their core mission. A secondary mission is to advance the state of science and knowlege through research.
Sports programs are nice, but unnecessay. Bloated administrative bureaucracies that function as make-work welfare jobs are neither nice nor necessary. Departments, chairs, profesorships and _____-studies programs that leave graduates with massive chips on their shoulders but no decent job prospect beyond pouring coffee at Starbucks are outright destructive.