Academics in space community scheme to continue their racist DEI policies
A letter sent out yesterday by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) clearly illustrated the bigoted desire of our modern Marxist academic community to continue its racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in hiring by hiding or renaming them so that the Trump administration might not notice.
USRA is one of several university consortiums that manage a variety of space, science, and astronomical operations for the government. In USRA’s case, it manages the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI) for NASA.
The letter purported to announce how the organization was complying with Trump’s executive orders banning such race-based programs, but instead revealed its desire to continue them, but to do so under the table where no one could monitor them.
After consulting with our counsel and in a good faith effort to comply with these Administration directives to the best of our understanding of their terms, USRA/LPI removed (not deleted) all DEI-related content from the public-facing websites, which are maintained under USRA’s cooperative agreement with and grant from NASA.
USRA has sought NASA’s approval to maintain the DEI content public-facing, with the addition of a disclaimer that the content “may not reflect current policy or programs.” Lacking that approval, USRA believes that compliance with Administration directives requires DEI content to remain out of public view. If and when USRA is advised by an authoritative federal body that we can restore that content, with or without a disclaimer, USRA will promptly do so.
USRA apparently wants to maintain its race-based hiring practices, but do so in a manner that will prevent the Trump administration from interfering. It also wants to be in a position to immediately restore its racist DEI propaganda to public view the moment a Democrat returns to power.
No matter that it uses taxpayer dollars to do this. No matter that Trump was elected by those taxpayers to expressly end these bigoted programs. And no matter that these policies violate numerous civil rights laws that specifically outlaw racial discrimination. As far as USRA and the academic scientists who run it are concerned, they are above the law, and the federal dollars they get are theirs forever to do with whatever they want, no matter what the taxpayers say.
Nor are my conclusions here unreasonable. In fact, the academics themselves have acted to strengthen my argument. An article today in the very leftist science journal Nature said this about the material that USRA has removed from public view:
The missing meeting abstracts include research on workforce issues, such as how to build the most effective team of scientists for a mission. One of Daubar’s deleted abstracts described a programme to involve early-career scientists in NASA’s InSight mission to Mars. David Trang, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute who is based in Honolulu, Hawaii, had his work on improving mental health among planetary scientists deleted. Removing these abstracts “takes away our culture”, he says. “That’s the saddest part.” [emphasis mine]
The Nature article claimed that USRA had over done it and deleted or removed material that was only slightly related to DEI policies.
All the highlighted phrases however suggest otherwise. They are the typical euphemisms used by academics and these publications when they wish to hide DEI-related research and programs. And even if USRA went over board with its action, this quote tells me it didn’t go over board by very much.
An example of NASA’s DEI policies, now supposedly banned by Trump
The bottom line is still the same: Our American academic community at all levels has been badly corrupted by this ugly race-based philosophy. Too many of them — especially those in charge — like the idea of discriminating in favor of minorities, no matter how illegal or immoral it is. Issuing a few executive orders and firing people, even a substantial number, will not fix the problem. It will take many years of concerted and unrelenting effort to change things, far more than a single four year Trump administration.
In fact, to do it we will need to re-educate a whole new generation. And that will involve a complete reshaping of much of the soft sciences in academia, a truly Herculean task.
Whether we as Americans have the will to do this long term still remains entirely unclear.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
A letter sent out yesterday by the Universities Space Research Association (USRA) clearly illustrated the bigoted desire of our modern Marxist academic community to continue its racist Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) policies in hiring by hiding or renaming them so that the Trump administration might not notice.
USRA is one of several university consortiums that manage a variety of space, science, and astronomical operations for the government. In USRA’s case, it manages the Lunar Planetary Institute (LPI) for NASA.
The letter purported to announce how the organization was complying with Trump’s executive orders banning such race-based programs, but instead revealed its desire to continue them, but to do so under the table where no one could monitor them.
After consulting with our counsel and in a good faith effort to comply with these Administration directives to the best of our understanding of their terms, USRA/LPI removed (not deleted) all DEI-related content from the public-facing websites, which are maintained under USRA’s cooperative agreement with and grant from NASA.
USRA has sought NASA’s approval to maintain the DEI content public-facing, with the addition of a disclaimer that the content “may not reflect current policy or programs.” Lacking that approval, USRA believes that compliance with Administration directives requires DEI content to remain out of public view. If and when USRA is advised by an authoritative federal body that we can restore that content, with or without a disclaimer, USRA will promptly do so.
USRA apparently wants to maintain its race-based hiring practices, but do so in a manner that will prevent the Trump administration from interfering. It also wants to be in a position to immediately restore its racist DEI propaganda to public view the moment a Democrat returns to power.
No matter that it uses taxpayer dollars to do this. No matter that Trump was elected by those taxpayers to expressly end these bigoted programs. And no matter that these policies violate numerous civil rights laws that specifically outlaw racial discrimination. As far as USRA and the academic scientists who run it are concerned, they are above the law, and the federal dollars they get are theirs forever to do with whatever they want, no matter what the taxpayers say.
Nor are my conclusions here unreasonable. In fact, the academics themselves have acted to strengthen my argument. An article today in the very leftist science journal Nature said this about the material that USRA has removed from public view:
The missing meeting abstracts include research on workforce issues, such as how to build the most effective team of scientists for a mission. One of Daubar’s deleted abstracts described a programme to involve early-career scientists in NASA’s InSight mission to Mars. David Trang, a planetary scientist at the Space Science Institute who is based in Honolulu, Hawaii, had his work on improving mental health among planetary scientists deleted. Removing these abstracts “takes away our culture”, he says. “That’s the saddest part.” [emphasis mine]
The Nature article claimed that USRA had over done it and deleted or removed material that was only slightly related to DEI policies.
All the highlighted phrases however suggest otherwise. They are the typical euphemisms used by academics and these publications when they wish to hide DEI-related research and programs. And even if USRA went over board with its action, this quote tells me it didn’t go over board by very much.
An example of NASA’s DEI policies, now supposedly banned by Trump
The bottom line is still the same: Our American academic community at all levels has been badly corrupted by this ugly race-based philosophy. Too many of them — especially those in charge — like the idea of discriminating in favor of minorities, no matter how illegal or immoral it is. Issuing a few executive orders and firing people, even a substantial number, will not fix the problem. It will take many years of concerted and unrelenting effort to change things, far more than a single four year Trump administration.
In fact, to do it we will need to re-educate a whole new generation. And that will involve a complete reshaping of much of the soft sciences in academia, a truly Herculean task.
Whether we as Americans have the will to do this long term still remains entirely unclear.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon. from any other book seller, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Not only are they not “compiling with Trump’s executive orders”, but they’re also not complying either. These people think they’re above the law and don’t give a rip who knows it. My daughter, graduating with her degree in Physics tomorrow, is aspiring to join an organization like this, but it sounds like her skin tone is going to work against her, abilities be damned.
Skunk Bucket-
Congrats to your daughter!
In the Alternate Universe, these USRA people were all sent to ore-processing on Terok Noir.
There is nothing new about racists working against the letter and spirit of the law while seeking to perpetuate their racism. The racists of yesteryear founded the Ku Klux Klan (and assured it had the support, if not active participation, of local politicians and law enforcement personnel), generated and defended Jim Crow laws, and shut down public schools in defiance of Brown vs. Board of Education.
This is just the 21st century version, by the descendants of those who did the same thing before. Trump needs to be the modern Eisenhower and face down the race mongers.
Hmm
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-assumptions-linking-racial-attitudes-political.html
“Cities like Knoxville, Tennessee, and Spokane, Washington, voted Republican but showed lower-than-expected levels of implicit racial bias, once factors like diversity, segregation, and city population were accounted for.”
“In contrast, Chicago, Illinois, Albany, New York, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, all Democratic strongholds, exhibited higher-than-expected bias levels.”
But remember–this is only known because of studies—so don’t be so stingy when it comes to science, guys.