New York Times Goes Pro-Soviet for Moon Landing Anniversary

[rangerrebew]

New York Times Goes Pro-Soviet for Moon Landing Anniversary
By Roger L. Simon July 19, 2019


The New York Times — that Democratic Party house organ that fancies itself "liberal" or "progressive" or some such — is actually one of the more reactionary institutions in our country. Sometimes you have to wonder if it might actually be an American version of Izvestia.

Speaking of which, in honor of the fifty-year anniversary of the USA putting a man on the moon, the once-upon-a-time newspaper of record produced this ridiculous nonsense under the rubric "How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality."

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/ny-times-goes-pro-soviet-for-moon-landing-anniversary/

[PeteS in CA]

Well, all those cosmonauts who walked on the Moon deserve to be honored too!

[goatprairie]

New York Times Goes Pro-Soviet for Moon Landing Anniversary
By Roger L. Simon July 19, 2019


The New York Times — that Democratic Party house organ that fancies itself "liberal" or "progressive" or some such — is actually one of the more reactionary institutions in our country. Sometimes you have to wonder if it might actually be an American version of Izvestia.

Speaking of which, in honor of the fifty-year anniversary of the USA putting a man on the moon, the once-upon-a-time newspaper of record produced this ridiculous nonsense under the rubric "How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality."

https://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/ny-times-goes-pro-soviet-for-moon-landing-anniversary/

If the Slimes and other liberals are correct and the most important things only happen when both sexes and all peoples participate equally, then all scientific/technological achievements before and after the moon landing are also forfeit because virtually all of were created  by white males.
That notion is, of course, a load of bunk.
The anti-American libs at the Slimes and other detractors are just defecating on their own country.

[goatprairie]

Well, all those cosmonauts who walked on the Moon deserve to be honored too!

What the Soviets achieved were great accomplishments. But I bet, like the American space program,  few minorities or women were involved in their space program.

[andy58-in-nh]

Definitely a nominee for this year's Walter Duranty Award.

[PeteS in CA]

What the Soviets achieved were great accomplishments. But I bet, like the American space program,  few minorities or women were involved in their space program.

Actually, the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963 on Vostok 6. The next was also Russian, in 1982. While the USSR was pretty racist - and even ethnicist (not a word, but ...), as Ukrainians, Jews, and Chechens could tell - they didn't have much of a non-"white" population.

The US tended to draw astronauts from military services. Truman, apparently (it was before I was born), officially integrated the military in the 1940s, but it wasn't an instantaneous change. And social attitudes in many parts of the US changed even slower. Like any effort, the US space program started and proceeded with what it had, not what niggling pundits 50+ years later say they should have had. Denigrating the space program for not using what was not available, as the NYT seems to have done, is simply stupid ... unsurprising in the NYT.

[goatprairie]

Actually, the first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, in 1963 on Vostok 6. The next was also Russian, in 1982. While the USSR was pretty racist - and even ethnicist (not a word, but ...), as Ukrainians, Jews, and Chechens could tell - they didn't have much of a non-"white" population.

The US tended to draw astronauts from military services. Truman, apparently (it was before I was born), officially integrated the military in the 1940s, but it wasn't an instantaneous change. And social attitudes in many parts of the US changed even slower. Like any effort, the US space program started and proceeded with what it had, not what niggling pundits 50+ years later say they should have had. Denigrating the space program for not using what was not available, as the NYT seems to have done, is simply stupid ... unsurprising in the NYT.

This is just the usual suspects at The Slimes doing everything they can to defecate on what many consider the greatest scientific achievement of all time.
They should be ashamed of themselves, but since they're hardcore liberals, they never are.