Minority Professor Denied Grants Because He Said He Would Hire on Merit

Originally from India, Patanjali Kambhampati is an award winning scientist and chemistry professor at McGill University in Montreal.

Although he is himself a racial minority, he has now been denied two research grants from the government of Canada because “the Equity, Diversity and Inclusion considerations in the application were deemed insufficient.”

The problem, Kambhampati says, was that when the applications asked who he would hire as research assistants, he answered, “We will hire the most qualified people based upon their skills and mutual interests.”

Merit based hiring was NOT the answer that the woke bureaucrats issuing government grants wanted to hear.

For example, a recent research project that WAS funded by the Canadian government will study cancer risk factors as “symptoms of colonialism.”

Now that’s speaking the social justice warriors’ language!

Kambhampati said:

“I actually get called a racist constantly by white university students… if you are a minority who thinks that the racism of the woke left is overstated they say you have internalized racism.”