Remember when the Kochs were doing their full court press on education, handing out donations and doing everything they could to leverage them having a say in curriculum?
You want money, let me politicize your school.
Those were the days...
These days however, just speaking your own mind about say, abortion rights, gets the University of Alabama (AL 12th lowest in per student spending) to give Hugh Culverhouse Jr his 8 digit donation back.
The board does not agree with your private opinion therefore students and faculty can kiss that support goodbye. To me it smacks of a very popular double standard among republicans, this belief that only they are allowed to pipe up. You're a town clerk denying gay people marriage licenses?
Oh you hero, get this woman a stage. You're a football player taking a knee during anthem to protest racial inequality and police brutality?
This. Motherfucker. Right here.
A curious, rather bullshit packed dichotomy really. I'm all for philanthropy, but not if it comes at the expense of integrity or the rights of others.
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