Posted on 07/17/2019 10:42:42 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
With ‘Woke’ Identity Politics
Is there anything they won’t spoil?
s there literally anything left that they won’t try to ruin by injecting ‘woke’ identity politics into it?
The 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong becoming the first man to set foot on the Moon is this weekend.
Instead of using the celebration of the Apollo Moon landing to bring Americans together in a time of intense partisan bickering, the New York Times and the Washington Post are exploiting it to divide Americans even further.
“The Apollo program was designed by men, for men. If we do not acknowledge the gender bias of the early space program, it becomes difficult to move past it,” tweeted the Times, with a link to a story about women having to “escape Earth’s gender bias”.
Not to be outdone, the Washington Post took the opportunity to take another swipe at that new embodiment of evil incarnate; white men.
“The culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male,” they tweeted.
Because there’s nothing like throwing the very people who got America to the Moon under a bus on the 50th anniversary of their stunning achievement.
Respondents to the tweets were decidedly unimpressed.
“D-Day, June, 1944. A culture mostly white and male,” joked one.
“WaPo has just encouraged hating the people that put people on the Moon? A sickly rag at best,” added another.
Both tweets were ratioed into oblivion. Americans are sick of everything being filtered through the lens of identity politics.
The aborigines inhabited Australia for 40,000 years and the only thing they invented was a stick!
NASA named a building after an obscure black woman (whose history was hilariously inflated by the “Hidden Figures” movie:
I guess that didn’t work.
Placating the left never does....
You want WOKE? Here is WOKE.
It wasn’t MEN that kept WOMEN out of the workplace. It was biology.And, as soon as women got reliable birth control AND convenient SANITARY PRODUCTS, they moved into the workforce.
A few old farts might have fussed about it. But, it was biology that kept them out.
You want WOKE? Here is WOKE.
It wasn’t MEN that kept WOMEN out of the workplace. It was biology.And, as soon as women got reliable birth control AND convenient SANITARY PRODUCTS, they moved into the workforce.
A few old farts might have fussed about it. But, it was biology that kept them out.
There were damned few Amelia Earharts in the 60s, and even among them were few qualified for the moon mission. And PC had not yet demanded that they be sought out.
What are they bitching about? There was also the NASSA program (google ‘nassa video’).
It shows their ignorance. WSJ has a great article on the computer and software that made the LM and the landing possible. Women, Margaret Hamilton being at the forefront, were key figures. They have been acknowledged so in a number of books I have read.
A young Hillary Clinton allegedly was interested in becoming an astronaut. But she was allegedly told that girls couldn’t be astronauts. And incidents such as these helped drive her to become a feminist.
It was 1957, ‘58, a different time. LOL Surprisingly, that video is available on YouTube.
That’s hilarious; especially ‘Fingeroot’.
I wish I worked at the NYT or WP.
I would have headlined that article:
THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON LANDING
A young Hillary Clinton allegedly was interested in becoming an astronaut. But she was allegedly told that girls couldn’t be astronauts. And incidents such as these helped drive her to become a feminist.
Yeah...that, plus being named after Sir Edmund Hillary. (Eye roll)
Can't hold a candle to:
Destination: Planet Negro (2016)
The first half has many parallels to Idiocracy. The second half is sort of preachy with "blacktivist" viewpoints, but nevertheless, the movie is hilarious overall. Highly recommend seeing it before YouTube pulls it.
“Sally Kristen Ride was an American engineer, physicist and astronaut. Born in Los Angeles, she joined NASA in 1978 and became the first American woman in space in 1983.”
Like everything else in America, things get corrected. The nation learns and progresses. Sally Ride joined NASA only 9 years after the first moon landing and five years later was on the Space Shuttle.
The people who run these rags, edit them and write for them are small-minded twerps.
Started to watch a show about the history of our space program. Half way through they started in on racism. Turned it off right then. PBS — I should have known.
Sounds like those “Blaxploitation” Flicks from the 70’s, Superfly, Shaft, Black Sampson, etc. Richard Roundtree and Pam Greer would’ve been great in this movie. Wold like to see Mystery Science Theatre 3000 do a number on this :)
right after the marines rejected her
Was that before or after her uncle climbed Mt. Everest?
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