And/or people capable of unpopular rational thinking and noticing patterns. You can't aim to select people for characteristics other than pure merit and at the same time claim merit is the deciding factor in selection - well, short of amazing coincidence.
- We promise to select someone biologically related to Congress
- We have selected Mark who is a nephew of a prominent senator and really the only one available in the pool that meets the above qualifications
- But Mark is just as qualified if not more so than anyone else. He was selected on merit just like everyone else!
You seriously believe this shit? You expect other people to?
> That it's only a coincidence that every single astronaut during the Apollo missions was a white man. That they were all definitely above every possible non-white non-man.
Are you seriously implying that the past Moon missions were not selecting organically for the most qualified they thought they thought they had, but rather as some sort of identity politics conspiracy against non-whites and women? Serious projection. Evil white males do not control space and access to it. Anyone qualified that thinks they can pull off a lunar mission is free to try.