Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
Workers at NASA Told to ‘Drop Everything’ to Scrub Mentions of Indigenous People, Women from Its Websites
The directive, sent on January 22 and obtained by 404 Media, states:
“Per NASA HQ direction, we are required to scrub mentions of the following terms from our public sites by 5pm ET today. This is a drop everything and reprioritize your day request. Note that the list below is the list that exists this morning, but it may grow as the day goes on.
DEIA
Diversity (in context of DEIA)
Equity (“ “)
Inclusion (“ “)
Accessibility (“ “)
MSI
Minority Serving Institution
Indigenous People
EEJ
EJ
Environmental Justice
Underrepresented groups/people
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)”
This is some ridiculous bullshit.
Anything specifically targeting women (women in leadership, etc.)
Hooooly fuck.
They're really not hiding it anymore. Well, I guess that's not new, but still, holy fuck. This might be some malicious compliance from NASA administrators or something.
It's just bonkers, but in a scary clown kinda way.
I'm kinda amazed at the prescience of the handmaids tale and other dystopian novels.
Some of that I can see. They don't want to continue the narrative of oh the poor minorities.
Then again, this is way more of a blanket than anything. Scrubbing all mentions of things like "equity" is a little crazy.
How about no.
Either that or go whole-hog the other direction.
NASA History
Since its founding in 1958, white man at NASA have pushed the boundaries of scientific and technical limits to explore the unknown for all the male citizens of our planet. Discover the history of our human spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.
Remembering Our White Heroes
NASA will never forget the tragic loss of the all-male, all-white crews of the Apollo 1 crew, and some other people who we don't need to mention because we forgot about them.
Hidden Figures
Did anyone other than white men ever play a pivotal role in spaceflight? It's possible, but if it had, I've been instructed not to tell you about it.
If you're going to get fired, make it count.
Malicious compliance, lovely!
Not far enough. Someone might think “white man” is inclusive of diversity hires of descendants of immigrants from Ireland or Italy, and not exclusively of English origin.
This wouldn't get anyone fired in the current administration. That's promotion material. They're hoping for people to take the initiative just like that--don't make them tell you explicitly to post it. That's how you succeed as a Republican.
You forgot to mention the Nazis imported from Germany after the war..
Discover the history of our human white male spaceflight, science, technology, and aeronautics programs.
You're assuming they would object to that. I haven't seen anything to support that assumption.
This is getting out of hand
I think this is a bit beyond just "getting out of hand". US is now few steps away from outright having a Ministry of Truth and a lot of media are actually going along with it voluntarily.
If you told me this would happen even a month ago, I would have probably laughed at you.
Can I get the ROI on all this bullshit experiment?
He sure is running the government like one of his businesses...and now we see more clearly why they've all failed!
This is affecting our work - our Share point was down for two days while they looked through it for any mention of dei, delaying plenty of work that had nothing to do with dei.
But even putting that aside, now we have many (thousands?) government employees on admin leave, which means they're getting paid to do nothing. And likely will be for months.
And this delayed resignation thing, if they uphold their end of the deal, will cost even more. Especially since many of the takers seem to be people who were going to retire anyway, or "super commuters" that don't live near the office, both of whom were likely on their way out anyway.
That's a lot of money they are spending for no return at all.
Sounds like we can get more efficient if we remove musk from office.
Replace the NASA website with a continuous stream of the movie Hidden Figures with a scrolling banner above it saying "Fuck off Elon"
Lets make indigenous people invisible again, great.
Aw shit, here we go again
I'm terrified that they're going to try to finish the job.
Wasn't the Artemis Program advertised to land the first woman and first person of color in the moon? Well, I think Elon wanted to cancel the whole thing anyway (Except the NASA funding for his new rocket, of course).
Artemis does seem like the third most practical way to get there. Maybe it would be better to put that money to more effective use. Like it or not, SpaceX is a leading contender
"First woman in space"...shhhh
Hows about dropping that SpaceX contract?
I know why, but can still be unhappy.
Somehow they are better than Boeing...
Also no mentions of Jews or the Versailles Treaty
This explains why musk spacex blows up so many rockets
I have a feeling this is just them wanting everything to not be about minority groups.
Or it's erasure of peoples.
Are you blind or fucking stupid?
Oh boo hoo - listen libz, the fact is the Democrats love the genoside and everyone was absolutely right to usher in this fascist criminal organization to destroy the country from behind the desk.
I’m 50/50 on whether they send a craft to catch up to Voyager and scrub the woman off the gold record at this point.
I propose we should send Musk to fetch it himself.
He'll just award himself a few funds from the US Treasury for that.
They have to. She’s naked, that’s pornography.