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

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

Seen you about, you've got some good takes, some bad takes, and some absolutely mindbogglingly daft takes.

From what I've seen, you are, in fact, a Shit Poster. And while I've not scrolled through your entire history, I'm fairly confident that you never claimed you weren't a hypocrite.

Fair play.

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

Yeah. Skimming is standard. I appreciate the effort though!

[sunzu2@thebrainbin.org]

It ain't much, but it is honest work.

[sturgist@lemmy.ca]

the struggle is real fam

[cptender@lemmy.world]

lmao it's already too late

[dongirses@lemmy.world]

good ol' Bobby Tables

[underpantsweevil@lemmy.world]

If only NASA could run experiments so that we could understand how the concept of fear-based self preservation eliminates any semblance of courage when faced with even the smallest threat to their ill-defined paradigm of manhood.

You're significantly underestimating how many Chud engineers NASA employs. The agency that was founded by Nazis refugees has always had a shit history on race politics, cinema hagiographies produced decades later notwithstanding.

In a parallel universe where we have a functioning federal government

One of the biggest jokes of the US depiction of the Space Race was how many times we got our asses drubbed by Russians with less money, manpower, and educational resources, simply because our administration was so cartoonishly incompetent. We have an obscenely wealthy federal government that can afford to fuck up on the scale of trillions of dollars and still come out ahead.

[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.