NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE PRAISES SOVIET UNION FOR DIVERSITY IN LOSING SPACE RACE:

The New York Times published an article detailing “How the Soviets Won the Space Race for Equality” Tuesday, highlighting how socialism allowed people of “the humblest origins” to become successful.

The article, published under the “Past Tense” section, compared the “segregated United States” to the Soviet Union during the space race. While America put the first man on the moon, the Soviets sent the first man into space in 1961, before the U.S., and then sent “the first woman, the first Asian man, and the first black man into orbit – all years before the Americans would follow suit,” the article read.

It’s straight out of the Howell Raines school of group identity politics. As Raines’ classic Freudian slip went in 2001, a couple of years before Jayson Blair became a household name for all the wrong reasons, the Times’ hiring campaign “has made our staff better and, more importantly, more diverse.” Similarly, the Soviets lost the space race, but their hearts were purer. (Except they most certainly weren’t.)