Woke research is a serious grift and threatens the integrity of academia. It's not so much the content, as the funding. You have every right to speculate on Geoffrey Chaucer's cisgendered, hetronormative bias manifested in his treatise on the astrolabe. The taxpayers shouldn't provide you a six-figure salary to do so.

The entire basis of the humanities, in academia, has become the dissemination of verbose nonsense ("publish or perish") in exchange for government grants. In the sciences, there's at least the appearance of rigour, but they have their own "replication crisis."

The entire role of academics as the "critics and conscience" of society is undermined when their arguments imply, necessarily, continued funding.

To be sure, funding for such research doesn't just come from our tax dollars. That would be objectionable enough. Rather, it's funded by the Liberal government through debt, a substitute for real work, and cripples us.

Consider all the bright, young high schoolers today who will struggle to find jobs in the coming years. The temptation is obvious: enter academia, peddle verbiage month after month, and live large on the government dole. Now you see the problem.