Exclusive | US taxpayers fund $230M in woke intersectionality grants studying race, class and privilege: report

WASHINGTON — Taxpayers are funding $230 million in largely Biden-era grants to study woke “intersectionality” — the assessing of factors such as race and class to rate “privilege’’ and potential discrimination, a new report says.The Defense of Freedom Institute and Legal Insurrection Foundation, both right-leaning policy groups, said their review found 249 records of federal-assistance spending — propelled during the Biden era — that used the keyword “intersectionality.’’“Race-obsessed ‘Intersectionality’ doctrine provides the toxic fuel for radical anarchist groups like the Turtle Island Liberation Front, and is the mothers’ milk for destructive anti-American and anti-capitalist agendas that dominate campuses,” said William Jacobson, the founder of Legal Insurrection Foundation, to The Post.“Amazingly, we have discovered that the federal government has been funding the Intersectionality movement,’’ said Jacobson, a Cornell Law School professor.“This has to stop.”Intersectionality is a belief system in which people’s race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and other characteristics are used to assess their privilege and potential discrimination.Grants flagged by the report indicate the research exploded during former President Joe Biden’s tenure, reaching a peak of $80.1 million in 2023, for a total of $140 million in spending to date and another $90 million earmarked.The funding levels since dropped under President Trump.Some of the programs have performance periods that go through 2030.The intersectionality funding awards vary greatly from certain types of scientific research done under the National Institutes of Health to museums to federal funding for community living.In a lot of cases, the government was funding something such medical research, in which grant applicants wove in intersectionality principles.This was apparent in some of the awards that are specific to colleges and universities, including $10.99 m...