If you ever find yourself thinking "I'm worried about taking the action I consider most ethical because I don't know if my institution will lose donations" then congratulations, you have just learned about the awful power dynamics of philanthropy

Some donors actually do withhold money for political reasons (I have witnessed this), at which point the donation is in some sense also a bribe

Some donors are reasonable

Reasonable donors are great, and many are genuine! It's the structure of philanthropy itself that has a power dynamic built in

There's a book on this let me ask my housemate for it I'll share it with everyone it's cool

Please use this thread to attack systems and not people lol