But. If you stand idly by as an academic while your university engages in illegal and immoral racial discrimination, I don’t think you have any actual grounds for complaint when your failure to oppose that discrimination comes back around to bite you in the ass.
Would I like to live in a world where research funding for titans like Tao isn’t subject to political winds? Why yes, I would.
I’d also like to live in a world where the Marxists who corrupted the university system are all dead or exiled and institutions of higher learning have returned to affirming the highest values of the civilization they serve.