SCIENCE & TECH | World | NASA has scrapped its plans to land the first woman and person of colour on the Moon, aligning with Trump's directive against DEI practices.
  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    28·
    3 months ago

    well after all the white men… I guess it’s time for more white men. Some men here on earth might get their feelings hurt otherwise.

    • RejZoR@lemmy.mlEnglish
      17·
      3 months ago

      Especially the orange man. We should send him to orange planet. Red planet. It’s gradiences, just send him there.

  • Telorand@reddthat.com
    15·
    3 months ago

    Women and BIPOC couldn’t possibly be as skilled as white men. No possible way they could pass the same tests and qualify to be astronauts.

    /s

    • ranandtoldthat@beehaw.orgEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Right? Imagine being the white man chosen to go to the moon based on skin color and gender, knowing that more qualified astronauts had been passed up and that you are effectively propaganda. That would not be a great moment.

  • elfpie@beehaw.org
    3·
    3 months ago

    People should check the history of Marcos Pontes, the Brazilian astronaut, before parroting the narrative that only the most qualified and deserving get the job. It ended up being a case of you can do it if you have the money (or your government decides to pay to escape further embarrassment).

  • lemmus@szmer.info
    2·
    3 months ago

    Well…all in all, imo there should go people qualified to eo the job, not “black, " lgbt” “woman” “white” “hetero” “homo” etc…Just qualified people, no biasing to anyone, just let scientists do the s ience, not politics…

    • mysticdairy@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      But they ARE qualified, that’s why they were chosen. And now they are being denied simply because of what they look like, that’s kind of the whole issue here.

    • HumanPenguin@feddit.ukEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Yeah that would be a lovely change over the history of rejecting people purely based on being black female etc.

      There is a possibility to make an effort to correct a nations shamefully bigoted history. While still choosing qualifying people to do it.

      Unless you some how assume they would not be qualified just because they are not white males. Much as 1960s nasa and the whole of the US did during the space race.