Many have stated that previously underrepresented minorities in our society were overlooked when there were research studies on the health, psychology, or social sciences of society. However, today, if you search almost any topic in Google Scholar, the results will be studies based on “gender and minorities”, in a higher percentage than non-minority studies or studies that are fully inclusive based. in averages. It’s like you can’t find what you’re looking for since there are so many of these minority and gender based studies. Why? Political correctness of course, let me explain.

You see, the major federal funders for academic research come from agencies like the NIH and NSF, which fall under the Executive Branch of our Federal Government. For the last 8 years we have had President Obama in the White House, a gentleman with an agenda of leftist causes and political correctness. The Obama administration is supporting our colleges and universities with federal academic funds (taxpayer dollars). In turn, these colleges and universities have hired hundreds of professors in gender studies, African American studies, Chicano studies, gay and lesbian studies, etc. per institution and are able to do so because of this flow of money.

When a professor becomes the ‘principal investigator’ for a research grant, they are paid their normal salary with all benefits based on the institution they work at while conducting their research. If that research takes up, say, 30-50% of your time, then the institution has to hire another professor for that department to teach those classes. So you get more professors teaching those subjects, becoming tenured, and teaching another generation of students who will never find a real world job getting a degree in “African American Culture and Gay Identity,” for example, but can always give lessons. on the subject.

The problem is that we are graduating too many students with these kinds of worthless degrees, and even if you say; “That information is important!” Okay, and maybe it is, pardon my lack of knowledge, but if there ARE NO JOBS for such degrees, how are you supposed to pay off those student loans for those outrageous tuition fees our universities are charging these days? ? Why are we ripping off our students and using our public funds (taxpayer money) to prop up political correctness like this, 10 billion dollars a year? Couldn’t we use that money better for cancer research? Think about it.

Don’t you think the problem has become so bad? Get informed, do a Google Scholar search in your favorite research area, look in a local university’s “class offerings” catalog. It’s true, and it’s incredibly wasteful. Hopefully, the Trump Administration will fix this problem and make sure our tax dollars go to real, meaningful research, not some politically correct, politically correct, “feel good” bullshit.