Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

DEI is largely about raising the profiles of minority workers in roles and positions that were both vital to mission success and underpaid/underappreciate-for-promotion relative to the whiter career roles.

Petro's following in the grand tradition of Boomer senior leaders by pulling the ladder up behind her now that she's at the top.

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

This is just another version of pulling the ladder up behind them, no?

[empricorn@feddit.nl]

Ha! Beat you by a minute with that thought!

[turboharbinger@feddit.cl]

ITT: People who doesn't read the article. These science institutions shouldn't be used for fucking politics.

I wonder if something from the list published in this article has any relation to science or space. Yeah sure, let's go with "DEI and other Inclusivity programs are NECESSARY for space survival". I wonder what's the objective of NASA.

Lol don't worry, this Astronaut knows pronouns. /s

[corkyskog@sh.itjust.works]

Isn't there an entire movie about racism in NASA that's basically just a feel good story for white people?

[nalivai@lemmy.world]

These science institutions shouldn't be used for fucking politics.

You'd think, huh? Daamn, that's crazy

[blastboomstrice@mander.xyz]

Just did yesterday after putting it off for some months

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

Hidden Figures. More or less "The Help" for NASA dweebs.

It concedes that black women were instrumental in developing and executing a successful space race, but gets really cagey around questions like "Why did NASA only have a White Men's Restroom to begin with?", "What caused us to omit people like this in films like Apollo 13 or The Right Stuff?", and "How come the women who pioneered implementation of Fortran at NASA weren't able to pivot into senior administrative roles, private contracting firms, or academic positions like their male peers?"

[turboharbinger@feddit.cl]

Bro, if you're going to be sarcastic, at least try to sound smart. You just need to read the title to see its fucking propaganda from the opposition.

[nsrxn@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

everything is political. you are advocating that these institutions pretend observer bias doesn't exist.

[xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org]

Imagine dreaming to fly to space only to be denied having it because you’re not indigenous and they haven’t met their arbitrary quota of indigenous people.

[gloomy@mander.xyz]

Imagine beeing this fragile.

I'll spell it out for you honey. As long as we don't offer the same privileges white people have to all people, we need a qutoa to level the playing field.

I know that doesn't fit your ideology. Doesn't change how it's true tough.

[xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org]

What advantages does NASA give to white people that it would have to compensate for?