> But admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to anyone other than white men is an instant rage-boner for the Trump administration.

I (a white man) would be upset at preferential treatment of white men. Or white women. Or black men. Or anyone. Where's the "judging by the content of their character" that the social justice movement (rightly) called for? I don't see it much these days.

> But admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to anyone other than white men is an instant rage-boner for the Trump administration.

And for half the hn readership, it appears

Admitting in public that you are giving preferential treatment to white men is an instant rage-boner for most of Trump's opponents and also every previous US presidential administration and prestigious institution for as long as I've been alive. If individuals in their private capacity want to do preferential treatment for specific demographic categories, they can do so; but I don't want them to get government grants that comes out of my taxes for it.

Please please please insist your government money stop being spent for all the other discrimination going on. I don't think python grants should be anywhere near the top of that list.

Yeah Python grants are small potatoes. Things like https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/5/28/dei-rise-and-fa... , which involves threatening federal funding to Harvard in a way that induced them to make at least some DEI-related policy changes, is a much bigger priority.

Still, just because grants to open-source programming language foundations aren't the most important federal government spending priority, doesn't mean I want the federal government to remove the no-DEI condition on federal grant money.