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Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites (www.404media.co)
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[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

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

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 38 minutes ago

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?"