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| Topic | Why has the President been acting blatantly racist the past week? |
| Lirishae 07/19/19 1:48:54 PM #67: | LeetCheet posted... What I mean is that nowadays it seems like white people only get criticism and lots of it. You might want to ask yourself why you feel the need to keep some manner of racial scorecard. This may come as a shock to you, but white people have done some things that are worthy of being criticized. Instead of complaining and getting defensive, maybe you should cite a specific example of unfair criticism. LeetCheet posted... FSS some morons have even started to think that the moon landing was sexist and racist because there was only white men involved. The moon landing is the product of a time when minorities and women weren't seriously considered as astronauts. This is despite the fact that women performed better on tests than men. In the 1950s, before any American had been to space, women were considered good potential candidates for spaceflight. As NASAs first, all-male astronaut class was undergoing rigorous medical and physiological tests to make sure they could survive the shakes and sounds of a rocket launch, Randolph Lovelace, the doctor in charge of the examinations, suspected women might do as well or even better than the men. After all, women are, on average, lighter and smaller than men, and require less oxygen. So he started testing female pilots at his clinic in New Mexico in 1960, subjecting them to the same tests the male candidates faced. Thirteen of 19 women passed the tests, compared to 18 of 32 men. The women did particularly better than the men in isolation tests. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/women-in-space/498833 LeetCheet posted... Which is not true, they couldn't have done it without one brilliant female mathematician/physicist named Katherine Johnson. Most people have heard of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, but not Katherine Johnson. There's a long history of women's achievements being ignored or co-opted by men. LeetCheet posted... And why they usually send men up in space is because men usually has denser bones and more musclemass which you need in space. See above, and also this. https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2019/07/space-travel-four-ways-women-are-a-better-fit-than-men/ LeetCheet posted... Well, people were just dumber and ignorant back then and didn't know any better. That's glossing over and downplaying things quite a bit. LeetCheet posted... But it's a lot better now. "Better" is relative. Having a roof over your head is better than being homeless, but if it's leaking and freezing, you still have a long way to go. Ask pretty much any minority, including women, and I guarantee you they will have experienced discrimination of some sort, usually multiple times. LeetCheet posted... We have laws and invented a lot of things that has benefitted the whole human population all over the world. Are you trying to justify racism? Because that's how you're coming across. --- "Little scratches on people's hearts will be gone if they pat them from behind, but the humans don't know that." -Li'l Cactus 3DS FC: 0619-3174-3155 ... Copied to Clipboard! |
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