On the 50th anniversary of one of the greatest achievements in the history of the world, the Apollo 11 mission, the mainstream media appears to be going out of its way to present the American accomplishment in as negative a light as possible. To “celebrate” the event, The Washington Post told its readers that “the culture that put men on the moon was intense, fun, family-unfriendly, and mostly white and male.” The New York Times likewise presented the “giant leap for mankind” from the lens of race and gender, but also managed to portray the oppressive communist Soviet Union as the true “winners” of the space race.
“America may have put the first man on the moon, but the Soviet Union sent the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit — all years before the U.S. would follow suit,” the Times tweeted, linking to its piece on “How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality.”
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