Artemis I failed at launch again this week. Kamala Harris then touted diversity at NASA. This is the same week we have articles touting diversity at the Federal Reserve -- an institution that has run our economy into historic inflation. This is a s****y case for diversity.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 30, 2022
I know he's just a dick troll, but c'mon, man. That's just weak sauce, especially starting with "again" (Artemis has never rolled out for a launch before).
First of all, Mary Jackson called and says, "you're welcome for noticing that heat shield design flaw so the Mercury astronauts didn't get cooked." Her friend, Katherine Johnson also says, "you're welcome for calculating the trajectory that brought John Glenn safely home."
Glenn was actually a bit of a punk when it came to women astronauts, but of course NASA has become more diverse since America first orbited a man. And that has fuck all to do with yesterday's scrub.
But let's flip that script, just for fun. Perhaps if we'd had more diversity all along, with fewer white Yes Men who failed to call out NASA's dangerous assumptions, we wouldn't have suffered the disasters of Apollo One, Challenger, and Columbia.
As I noted yesterday, and other commentators pointed out to L'il Ben, test launches often don't go as planned (waves to SpaceX). Yet he's doubled down, suggesting that after a failure, having MVP Harris touting diversity looks bad or something. I'm beginning to think he doesn't do anything in good faith, and there might be some other reason he's attacking her.
Man, if anybody needed to be smacked hard enough to go to the moon (without Kepler's drugs to dull the pain)...
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