The shine isn’t even worn off yet
LGBTQ scientists and activists want to rename the James Webb telescope (named after a NASA administrator, not the author/Silver Star winner/Senator) now, since he was in government when they didn’t like the government. Think that’s what this means.
The excitement around unprecedented new images of far-off galaxies has reignited calls from some within the scientific and queer communities to rename the James Webb Space Telescope because of Webb’s alleged involvement in past anti-LGTBQ government policies in the mid-20th century.
NASA has billed the mission as an “Apollo moment,” with the potential to answer probing questions at the frontier of space discovery, including about life on other planets. But the agency has also faced criticism for naming its signature project after former NASA Administrator James Webb, who previously had served as undersecretary of state during the Truman administration, when the federal government systematically purged its ranks of LGBTQ employees.
In a statement to NBC News, a NASA spokesperson said Tuesday the agency’s historians have conducted an “exhaustive search through currently accessible archives on James Webb and his career,” which has included speaking with experts who “previously researched this topic extensively.”
“NASA found no evidence at this point that warrants changing the name of the telescope,” the statement said. “They are compiling their information now into an update the agency will share.”
Webb ran NASA, then a fledgling space agency, from 1961 to 1968, playing a major role in the Apollo program. Prior to his role at NASA, he served with the Truman administration during a period in the 1950s now known as the Lavender Scare. From the late 1940s to the 1960s, thousands of federal employees were forced to resign or were fired because of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
In a statement to NBC News, a NASA spokesperson said Tuesday the agency’s historians have conducted an “exhaustive search through currently accessible archives on James Webb and his career,” which has included speaking with experts who “previously researched this topic extensively.”
“NASA found no evidence at this point that warrants changing the name of the telescope,” the statement said. “They are compiling their information now into an update the agency will share.”
Literally one of the men who put us on the Moon. You didn’t really think they were going to stop at Civil War statues, did you?
Category: "Teh Stoopid", "The Floggings Will Continue Until Morale Improves", Dumbass Bullshit, Science and Technology
Again, we are judging someone from the past with the radical ideology of today. I guess they forget Saint Obama and her Holiness Hillary opposed gay marriage a little more than a decade ago. Pedo Pete’s 1990’s crime bill that he’s so proud of put how many black and brown people in jail? Spare me…Hypo-crats…spare me
But but but they “evolved”. Aw bullshit, they pandered to to the gay community.
Fuck finding evidence, their historians and leadership should just tell the activists to go pound sand.
Anyone up for a little family entertainment Disney??
Deploying the Fu of Google, this 1 webpage,
up since the 90s, before the millennium,
before Google, way back in the early days of Yahoo,
always comes up on page 1,
but ONLY if Google Fu includes either
“Mickey Mouse” or “1932” in the search.
The popular “Walt Disney racism” alone in Google Fu?
Page 8. Buried.
Odd how many like to bring up Disney and racism,
but always focusing on Magic Negro Uncle Remus
in the movie “Song of the South” (1946),
which was 14 years AFTER
Walt Disney’s racist Mickey Mouse comic books.
By the mid 1930s,
other cartoon and animation industry leaders and peers
put the pressure on Walt Disney
to keep his racism at home, and knock it off on the job.
But no one wants to rename Disney.
And now… below… featuring Mickey and Minnie Mouse…
“A Black Outlook”
https://momentsintime.com/1932-walt-disneys-mickey-mouse-annual-with-racial-epithets/#.YtFIjoTMKUk
Fuck the “queer community.”
The more the snowflake woke crowd gets kowtowed to, the more they demand.
They could do away with NASA in its entirety and we would not be much worse off for it. Save a bunch of money — wait, no use for that since the socialist dems would either steal that money or spend it on dumb stuff.
I KNEW they weren’t going to stop at statues.
One rule I have when tending the preschoolers at church, and one of them pitches a hissy fit:
The child never wins. He or she can never win. Otherwise the hissy fits continue to the detriment of all.
Same rule should be applied to these intellectual midgets.
I can see millions spent exploring the universe for signs of LGBTQ life.
And how come there no transgender astronauts? Surely there are some worthy LBGQT candidates in today’s military who would like to boldly go where no one who identifies as a man has gone before.
In space no one can hear you squeal like a pig.
You can’t suck anything in vacuum.
Dueling Space Banjo’s…
Oh what a tangled webb we weave.
Guess it is time to rename the J Edgar Hoover Building…
😉😎
From 2017:
“Justice Department Ordered to Release 1950s Gay ‘Purge’ Documents. The Justice Department must search for and release historical records pertaining to a “purge” of gay federal employees by the FBI under J. Edgar Hoover.”
https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/court-tells-justice-department-release-1950s-gay-purge-documents-n789056
So far, total number on that petition is about 1,700.
Perhaps those 1,700 folks should start another petition demanding Ole Brandon Joey Boy name be removed from ANYTHING that has his name attached. As in all Executive Orders that he signed. Or Beaus name affiliated with any building that is part of the Delaware National Guard. You Know. Saudi Arabia.
“Saudi Arabia’s top religious body declares homosexuality ‘one of the most heinous crimes’ and gay people ‘a disgrace in this world and the next'”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10336535/Saudi-Arabias-religious-body-declares-homosexuality-one-heinous-crimes.html
Next thing you know, that small group is gonna state the M&M characters are not diverse enough..You just watch.
Personally, have always thought Warner Brothers Looney Tunes cartoons, i.e. Bugs Bunny were way ahead of their time….(“What Opera, Doc?”..”Kill Da Wabbit”)
😉😎
What about The Flintstones. They broke ground for LBGQT Rights when Barney (or was it Fed) dressed as a woman to get into the ballgame on Ladies Day.
Don’t forget Uncle Miltie:
And Flip Wilson as Geraldine
Hack:
Well, the Flintstones Song was “We’ll Have A Gay Ole Time…”
😉 😎
Gee Whiz.
This is what happens when the month of June was designated as Pride Month?
30 days…
Give them an inch and they will take a mile?
If that is who they are, then so be it. It’s when someone’s personal beliefs/feelings are SHOVED down our throats (please don’t go there..Thank You..😉) and try to villify or make the rest of us “feel guilty” that we are turned off.
If you think about it, that’s with alot of other EXTREME groups that try to cram their beliefs into others.
We can think of quite a few groups. Could have sworn one of them was led by a Dude with a mustache who had a Pet German Shepard. Or another group led by a Dude who was a Duke who liked White Sheets.
And please don’t get me started with the history of some Christian Churches…
NASA folds in ….?
It should be ‘Silver Star recipient’ vs. ‘Silver Star winner.’ Same with the MoH and other awards. Critics will make the point that it is not a contest. The term ‘winner’ is however used quite often, but it is incorrect among people that advocate for the correct terminology.