NASA Goes Woke
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is launching a new mission on Friday to analyze what parts of its agency have potential barriers for historically “underrepresented and underserved” communities.
Mission Equity [racism] is an endeavor to look at the agency’s programs, procurements, grants, and policies to examine what challenges exist for minorities who want to join the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
The agency identified “underrepresented and underserved” people as African American, Latino, Native American, Asian, religious minorities, LGBTQ+ people, people with disabilities, people who live in rural areas, and impoverished people.
Everyone but white people although they included rural areas to make it seem less racist. People should be hired based on qualifications, period.
“At NASA, we’re on a mission of equity, launching opportunity … to reach those we’ve never reached before … to shatter boundaries and break down barriers across America,” NASA staffers say in the video.
“NASA is a 21st-century agency with 22nd-century goals. To be successful, it’s critical that NASA takes a comprehensive approach to address the challenges to equity we see today,” NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said.
No, it’s critical you get the most qualified people.
“The agency’s new Mission Equity is a bold and necessary challenge for NASA to ensure our programs are accessible to all Americans and, especially, those living in historically underserved communities across the country,” Nelson said. “Because when NASA opens doors to talent previously left untapped, the universe is the limit.”
Equity is racism. It immediately disqualifies some of the best-qualified people based on immutable characteristics like skin color or other irrelevant issues like income. It bases everything on the outcome, nothing else. Everyone has to have the same outcome regardless of talent, effort, commitment, intelligence, and so on. It’s a Marxist-based ideology and very dangerous. It’s the opposite of what our Constitution calls for and what MLK Jr. preached.
This is all Barack Obama’s third term, operating through figurehead Joe Biden. We are destroying ourselves. Our mission is suicidal.
From Space Race to All About Race.
Equity is evil and it is being shoved down our throats by literal communists. Resist!
NASA makes it sound like they only want to make jobs “accessible” but it goes into hiring. On their website, they write: Underserved and underrepresented communities include: Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.
Notice who isn’t there in all likelihood — unless they’re poor?
Watch:
We’re launching Mission Equity, a comprehensive effort to assess how to expand access to our programs and examine potential barriers and challenges that exist for historically underrepresented and underserved communities. Find out how to give feedback: https://t.co/IJ2wk7qh0z pic.twitter.com/i6wD85Zc1e
— NASA (@NASA) June 16, 2021
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I wonder if school dropouts, convicted felons in and out of prison, the mentally challenged, physically challenged, etc. will be included as historically underrepresented and underserved so must be let into the programs. Maybe Geordie can lend his special eye enhancement to those who are vision impaired.
I find this just plain crazy. We were able to go to the Moon because NASA hired the Best People they could find. In the 1960’s some of the best mathematicians at NASA were Black Woman. They even made a movie about it, “Hidden Figures”.
What we are seeing now is the kind of thinking you get with losers in Government. The Government becomes so bloated that Bureaucrats have to keep generating problems to keep their over paid jobs. The Next Republican Government needs to cut the size of the Federal Government in half on day one, then whittle it down to the 10% who actually do work in the Government and not just give speeches and hold meetings. I had to tolerate these losers for over 20 years working in the Federal Government.
Equity is what Communism is about, and that is why the Russians lost the Space Race! Equity is about reducing everyone in society down to the LEAST Common Denominator; with everyone producing at the lowest level possible. Equality is about allowing people to do their best. Think of how Professional Sports would be if there was an Equity Policy. Anyone who wanted to play would be allowed to play. There would be no greats of the Game and there wouldn’t be any million dollar salaries. The Best of the Best would just go do something else.
It took industry to design low cost reusable rockets. That Idea never crossed the minds of NASA Bureaucrats. Even the “reusable” Space Shuttle cost a whopping $54,500 per kilogram while Space X is now putting a kilogram into space for just $2,720. The Space Shuttle could only lift 27,500 kilograms into space and required a human crew. Falcon Heavy can lift 63,800 kilograms without a crew and its potential for loss of life. NASA was started in 1958 and didn’t put the shuttle into space until 1981 – 23 years! After producing the Shuttle, NASA pretty much just sat on it’s hands using the Space Shuttle’s late 1960’s technology. Elon Musk created Space X in 2002 and in 2019 launched the Falcon Heavy; only 17 years. If NASA would have continued the development of the Saturn V, we probably would have something like a Saturn XXX and gone to Mars before 2000, but the Government became more interested in “Big Social Programs” and redistribution of wealth in the late 60’s.
Big Government only gets in the way of human progress, which is why you need to keep Government as small as possible. Small Government is also much faster at reacting to abuses of big business which we now see in some parts of the Tech Sector. When Government controls the abuses of technology it is Technology and not Big Government Social Programs takes the most people out of Poverty and enhances the quality of life.
To absurdity and beyond. Will the Russians give us a lift or Elon?
O/T-found a gem from FAM elders teaching days an American History reader’s companion!
What a treasure trove of information 1200+ pages, going over the amendments and still kind of head scratching over 13, slavery is an accepted form of punishment ?
It is several centuries ago and the whole apply today’s norms to then mania is ludicrous.