I don't doubt that everything you're saying is true, but that's bigger than this incident or this employee. UT is very political (more so than most universities including the rubes from College Station, though all universities are political), and that undoubtedly alienates alumni. They alienate legislators. They just make sure they don't alienate the wrong ones.
However, suppose they eliminated this position . Might some conservative UT alumni write out a check? I'm sure some would. However, it would become a national story. Liberal alumni and students would crap in their pants, and the media would give them a big platform and let them use it to ***** about the firing and complain that UT doesn't care about its minority students. Obviously, they'd cut UT off, but in addition, virtue signaling businesses and individual donors who are connected to business would also cut them off. And of course, the minority members of the Legislature would bust their balls every chance they got. The reverse isn't true. Conservative legislators don't bust their balls for having this guy, because they don't care. I worked for a very conservative member of the House Higher Education Committee. Do you know how many times she mentioned this joker or people who do what he does? Not once.
Nevertheless, I'm going to lecture everybody on this again. Stop donating money to public universities. It's stupid regardless of whether they create fake positions for this doofus. Like I've said before, my local post office does a great job, and it's run by very decent guys - military personnel and veterans who bravely served their country during a time of war. They're far more honorable, far more competent, and far more worthy of my charity than the political hacks and tools who run UT. However, I'd never write that post office a check. Why not? Because they're a government agency, which means they have their hand in my wallet and can take money anytime they want. The same is true for UT or any public university. They don't need your money or anybody's money. Furthermore, they're not a friggin' charity. They are a taxpayer-funded service provider. Yes, they educate (or mal-educate) people, but students shell out obscene amounts of money for that service. It's a business transaction, not a charity. I did all kinds of work for clients, but once I took my contingent fee, they were under no moral obligation to give me money.
Furthermore, there are a million more worthy charities. If you're religious and have extra money sitting around, donate it to your local church or synagogue. If you're not religious, donate to a local food bank. Hell, donate to Paralyzed Veterans. Those guys had their spinal cords blown apart serving their country and can't even go to the bathroom properly, and you'd rather give your money to a bunch of pretentious, socialist, douches at a university?? What kind of screwed up priority is that? If you want to donate to an education-oriented cause donate to a scholarship fund that directly helps people go to college. If you're a conservative, do something useful. Set up a scholarship fund to pay for conservative kids who want to study education, journalism, law, or some other area of public and cultural advocacy. Giving money to a public university does the complete opposite. Stop doing it, especially if you're a conservative. They're working against you. You may as well give it to Planned Parenthood or Black Lives Matter.
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