Posted on 07/19/2019 5:07:59 AM PDT by Rummyfan
As America prepares to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing, The New York Times is busy celebrating the Soviet space program and bashing America’s.
A Times op-ed Thursday highlighted how the Soviet Union was oh-so-diverse, sending women and people of color into space long before stuffy, old America got around to doing the same.
As the USSR retreats into the rearview mirror of history, there is a growing tendency to romanticize its disastrous reign through the lens of contemporary wokeness.
Sure, Communists tortured and executed dissidents, starved their own people by the millions and operated gulags — but have you heard about their amazing space feminism and space intersectionality?
“Cosmonaut diversity was key for the Soviet message to the rest of the globe,” the writer, Sophie Pinkham, wrote. Her piece reads like something from an old issue of the Soviet newspaper Pravda boasting of the achievements of the Soviet space program.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
That’s because no one on the NYT’s staff could have even been hired as a secretary by NASA at that time. NASA wanted exellence and talent and STEM ability. None of these things exist at the NYT, which is as much a joke as is our modern NASA (oh, and NASA is very inclusive now). Hmmmmmmm.
Sophie Pinkham sounds like a NY Times devoted Commie Pinkie. Disgusting.
The NYet Times is still butthurt that the United States won the space race and the Cold War and that Ronald Reagan was elected president and that the Soviet Union collapsed.
I seriously thought it was a fake-out by a parody account at first.
But no....that was a real NY Times story.
Watching the decline of The New York Times has been very sad. Even the Food section - which used to be highly readable and home cook-friendly - has become a haven for mistreated minority chefs (albeit wealthy and successful) and “marginalized” immigrants cooking swill in Bk’lyn. If they were white people, the Board of Health would be on them like yesterday.
Only old white man Eric Asimov is still allowed to write his non-political wine columns. Undoubtedly, he is on borrowed time.
The ‘equality’ story was especially risible.
Yes, they returned to their miserable gray cold communist hovels to eat cucumber sandwiches and go into the bathroom and turn the water on to create white noise so the ‘equal’ cosmonauts could speak freely.
So, diversity expedited the fall of the Soviet Union? I mean, they were sooooooo progressive, right?
Just another excuse for pinkham to show deep love and admiration for a communist totalitarian regime and hate for the USA. May she go to hell along with all the other communist America haters at the nyt.
Ah, thanks for posting. Now I see that one of the reasons the rooskies didn’t make it to the moon was diversity.
Another successful product of pubic school indoctrination.
Wait a second. Wasn’t there a movie afew years back about some black woman who was involved with orbital calculators, who “saved” the whole moon landing effort?
It must wrankle the SJW NYT that American white men landed American white men on the moon.
I seriously thought it was a fake-out by a parody account at first.
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Their whining and carping knows no bounds. Liberals are perpetually angry, resentful and jealous.
The topic of American successes is pretty much guaranteed to trigger them into writing some vitriolic attack designed to minimize the accomplishment and anyone associated with it.
Words of praise are strictly reserved for the “works” of their fellow liberal travelers. The NYT is a sham.
Just another excuse for pinkham to show deep love and admiration for a communist totalitarian regime and hate for the USA.
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But not enough “love” to go live in a country with a government she so admires. She’ll never leave what she views as the defective USA.
Great article, thanks for posting!
Twelve men have stood on the moon.
All Americans
Neil Armstrong is about to rise from the dead to deliver the most important announcement in the whole of human history:
"That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
It was and will be spoken in English. American English.
The NYT is too stupid to realize that they have actually opened an argument against diversity. The argument can be made that Russia’s “diversity” kept them from winning the space race to the moon.
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