Scientists: Biden has infused DEI and racial quotas throughout the entire federal science bureaucracy
Joe Biden, like the KKK in love with racist quotas
A new research paper just completed by a international group of scientists details at length how the policies of critical race theory and its “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)” philosophy has been infused deeply into all levels of the entire federal science bureaucracy, influencing grant awards and hiring at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in ways that warp science and research and make good research impossible..
You can read the paper here [pdf]. From the press release:
The paper exposes how DEI has spread much further and more deeply into core scientific disciplines than most people, including many scientists, realize. This has happened, in large part, by presidential executive order (specifically, EO 13985 and EO 14091), implemented through the budget approval process.
The two executive orders listed were issued by President Biden in 2021 and 2023 respectively, with the first issued on his very first day in office. If you have the patience, it worth reading both, since they outline in great detail the goals of this administration to favor the hiring and promotion of “underserved communities,” which the first order lists as follows:
Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.
Whites need not apply. Every action the Biden administration has taken at these agencies since has worked to favor individuals who happen to be members of these “underserved communities”, often pushing them forward when they are clearly not qualified. Those actions have forced scientists to rework their research to include this social justice agenda within it, even when there is no evidence of any discrimination by them and it is irrelevant to the work they are doing.
As someone who trolls NASA’s press releases and websites daily, I can confirm the paper’s conclusions. You cannot go one day without seeing numerous press announcements at NASA pushing DEI and racial quotas and racial heritage, utterly irrelevant to the needs of the agency or its fundamental purposes. The very fact that every single NASA press report about the first planned Artemis manned landing makes sure to mention that it will include “the first women and person of color” illustrates this bigotry most noticeably.
Who cares what race or color these astronauts are? Isn’t it more important that they are qualified to do the job? By focusing on these superficial issues NASA is literally telling us that it doesn’t place talent and skill and experience first in its decision making process, putting race and sex first instead.
The paper’s conclusion is blunt:
We recommend that all federally funded agencies focus on their primary role in generating the maximum public good for the public funds spent, and not take on the role of promoting any ideological agenda. Funding agencies should abolish DEI requirements and focus instead on funding proposals based on their merits.
In other words, take the advice of Martin Luther King and stop judging people by the color of their skin and instead rate them by the content of their character.
The November election will determine whether these policies continue or not. We know that if Biden wins he will not only continue them, he (and his leftist handlers) will double down on them. Trump will likely shut them down, as he during his first administration.
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Joe Biden, like the KKK in love with racist quotas
A new research paper just completed by a international group of scientists details at length how the policies of critical race theory and its “diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI)” philosophy has been infused deeply into all levels of the entire federal science bureaucracy, influencing grant awards and hiring at the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of Health (NIH), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in ways that warp science and research and make good research impossible..
You can read the paper here [pdf]. From the press release:
The paper exposes how DEI has spread much further and more deeply into core scientific disciplines than most people, including many scientists, realize. This has happened, in large part, by presidential executive order (specifically, EO 13985 and EO 14091), implemented through the budget approval process.
The two executive orders listed were issued by President Biden in 2021 and 2023 respectively, with the first issued on his very first day in office. If you have the patience, it worth reading both, since they outline in great detail the goals of this administration to favor the hiring and promotion of “underserved communities,” which the first order lists as follows:
Black, Latino, and Indigenous and Native American persons, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders and other persons of color; members of religious minorities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ+) persons; persons with disabilities; persons who live in rural areas; and persons otherwise adversely affected by persistent poverty or inequality.
Whites need not apply. Every action the Biden administration has taken at these agencies since has worked to favor individuals who happen to be members of these “underserved communities”, often pushing them forward when they are clearly not qualified. Those actions have forced scientists to rework their research to include this social justice agenda within it, even when there is no evidence of any discrimination by them and it is irrelevant to the work they are doing.
As someone who trolls NASA’s press releases and websites daily, I can confirm the paper’s conclusions. You cannot go one day without seeing numerous press announcements at NASA pushing DEI and racial quotas and racial heritage, utterly irrelevant to the needs of the agency or its fundamental purposes. The very fact that every single NASA press report about the first planned Artemis manned landing makes sure to mention that it will include “the first women and person of color” illustrates this bigotry most noticeably.
Who cares what race or color these astronauts are? Isn’t it more important that they are qualified to do the job? By focusing on these superficial issues NASA is literally telling us that it doesn’t place talent and skill and experience first in its decision making process, putting race and sex first instead.
The paper’s conclusion is blunt:
We recommend that all federally funded agencies focus on their primary role in generating the maximum public good for the public funds spent, and not take on the role of promoting any ideological agenda. Funding agencies should abolish DEI requirements and focus instead on funding proposals based on their merits.
In other words, take the advice of Martin Luther King and stop judging people by the color of their skin and instead rate them by the content of their character.
The November election will determine whether these policies continue or not. We know that if Biden wins he will not only continue them, he (and his leftist handlers) will double down on them. Trump will likely shut them down, as he during his first administration.
Readers!
Please consider supporting my work here at Behind the Black. Your support allows me the freedom and ability to analyze objectively the ongoing renaissance in space, as well as the cultural changes -- for good or ill -- that are happening across America. Fourteen years ago I wrote that SLS and Orion were a bad ideas, a waste of money, would be years behind schedule, and better replaced by commercial private enterprise. Only now does it appear that Washington might finally recognize this reality.
In 2020 when the world panicked over COVID I wrote that the panic was unnecessary, that the virus was apparently simply a variation of the flu, that masks were not simply pointless but if worn incorrectly were a health threat, that the lockdowns were a disaster and did nothing to stop the spread of COVID. Only in the past year have some of our so-called experts in the health field have begun to recognize these facts.
Your help allows me to do this kind of intelligent analysis. I take no advertising or sponsors, so my reporting isn't influenced by donations by established space or drug companies. Instead, I rely entirely on donations and subscriptions from my readers, which gives me the freedom to write what I think, unencumbered by outside influences.
You can support me either by giving a one-time contribution or a regular subscription. There are four ways of doing so:
1. Zelle: This is the only internet method that charges no fees. All you have to do is use the Zelle link at your internet bank and give my name and email address (zimmerman at nasw dot org). What you donate is what I get.
2. Patreon: Go to my website there and pick one of five monthly subscription amounts, or by making a one-time donation.
3. A Paypal Donation or subscription:
4. Donate by check, payable to Robert Zimmerman and mailed to
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If the actions of the Biden Administration were not specifically *designed* to destroy our technical civilization, their results are certainly working toward that end. Recall, again, Carl Sagan’s observations about this in his book, The Demon-Haunted World, and what happens when we entrust the running of our society to people who have no earthly idea how anything “works,” or even the need to keep the lights on. Echoing Prof. Sagan, DEI and racial quotas are merely another reversion to magical thinking and the worship of irrational, quasi-religious ideologies.
As an astute friend of mine likes to point out, however, this is not the kind of issue that sways elections, and no one will be talking about this problem at the Republican Convention tonight. Yet, whether our civilization lives or dies is literally hanging in the balance, even if most of the electorate will be making its choice for very different reasons.
We are paying a hell of a price for Bidens stupidity!!!!
Related:
“Like most things more Liberal and Leftist, never take what they say on its face value. There is always a duplicitous meaning and intent to everything a philosophical Leftist believer says. A subversion in other words. True for both political parties, but especially the Left.”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/listen-to-intelligent-people-not-village-idiots
“But how do I know, how do I find an intelligent “villager”? How can I tell when someone is actually intelligent and worthwhile listening to? It is up to you, it is your adult responsibility to figure out who is rational, who is intelligent. And who is just posing and is full of crap just looking to use and control you. But how do I know, how do I find an intelligent “villager”? How can I tell when someone is actually intelligent and worthwhile listening to? It is up to you, it is your adult responsibility to figure out who is rational, who is intelligent. And who is just posing and is full of crap just looking to use and control you.”
“And always remember: It is always about the children.”
Bob:
I agree with your sentiment completely but I think you typo’d one reference to the executive order text as “undeserved” instead of “underserved”. Even though the policy most assuredly results in this outcome I don’t think you meant to misquote it like this where it reads as a possible aspersion, because you have always held this site to the epitome of good decorum. And even though none of us care I don’t want the haters to have any ammo to disparage you.
Bob is incorrect in stating this is a research paper. The first sentence of the abstract states it’s a commentary, which means it is a subjective opinion paper.
MDN: It took me a bit to find the typo, but it is fixed, now reading “underserved” as it should.
“I’m a doctor in Gender Studies”
https://t.ly/4p3Ai
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THAT IS ONE SMELLY CAMEL CRAPPING IN YOUR TENT
“We can all tolerate a little Socialism here and there. But a little Socialism, a little of the camel’s nose introduced into the tent by “compassionate” government social engineers that know nothing about camel’s and the tent becomes the camel’s home.
Now what? Now you have a big smelly camel living and crapping in your tent and now you serve it, it does not serve you. THAT is Socialism. ”
https://www.sigma3ioc.com/post/socialism-and-equity-doubling-down-on-stupid
Perhaps more in line with Robert’s optimistic assessment of current trends in politics — and a third reason to take heart at this point — there has been a tectonic shift in terms of who and what the Republican Party now represents, and we have witnessed the first fruits of this historic realignment over the course of the last four nights. In case anyone has not noticed, the GOP is no longer the establishment party of Mitt Romney, Mitch McConnell, and George W. Bush / Dick Cheney, and thank God for that. As Tucker Carlson pointed out last night, we now are seeing a Republican Party that much more aligns itself with the actual wishes and needs of the American public, and this, boys and girls, is indeed the very definition of “democracy” and representative government.
Another reason that the emerging conservative coalition is so powerful is that it is increasingly composed of people who have themselves worked, struggled, and overcome to actually make real the original promise of the American Dream. Whether they are the cast aside “hillbillies” that JD Vance writes about or people of color whose parents and grandparents fought and won the Civil Rights Revolution, they have a visceral understanding of just how precious and valuable the foundational tenets of our constitutional Republic actually are, and they mean to keep them. So, too, an older generation of legal immigrants, like the parents of Marco Rubio, who fled to this country from oppressive societies, and they still know the difference between living in freedom and suffering under authoritarian rule. And, finally, there is every small business man or woman who struggled to keep going through the insane decrees of the COVID debacle and every obstacle that “their” government still throws in their path in the name of “inclusion,” “equity,” and “racial justice.”
For all of these Americans, the idea of the American Republic — and all that obtains under its banner — is not just a theoretical concept, but a hard-won, lived reality, and they know this in their hearts. In short, they believe that this is *our* country — not the property of the out of touch global elites and their well paid enablers — and we, God willing, are taking it back.
I’m confused, or the people who issued the press releases about Artemis are. Your quote was:
“The very fact that every single NASA press report about the first planned Artemis manned landing makes sure to mention that it will include “the first women and person of color” illustrates this bigotry most noticeably.”
What about Mae Jemison?
https://www.biography.com/scientists/mae-c-jemison
She flew aboard STS-47.
Chris
I think they meant to land on the Moon.
Chris: NASA touts these as the first woman and person of color to land on the Moon.
Kamala, another DEI hire.
the left elite have picked another on for the Democrats. They do not have elections they have selections, of one.