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The Cold War Illustrated (lemmy.ml)
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[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

You mean the black women who the US paid like shit to do critical math for the space program? (Including basically inventing the field of orbital mechanics) Those black women?

[–] EherNicht@feddit.org -4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yes. I mean women who fought against segregation in the US. But you seem to not be getting my point, which is to bad and why I won’t be bothered to argue anymore with people who cannot seem to see the colour grey - if you were to get that metaphor.

[–] OurToothbrush@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Yes. I mean women who fought against segregation in the US.

https://youtu.be/akj4lrS1bFY?si=DK8UIcqGr-ET2GFi

While the US had Jim Crow the soviet union had made racial discrimation a serious crime. Listen to these fascists interrogate Mr. Robeson and think about the context of anti-segregation activism with regards to the space race.