Bill Nelson's Pride Month Tweet
Keith’s note: Oddly this tweet – well intentioned as it was – from NASA Administrator Nelson about inclusion and diversity at NASA during Pride Month is limited in terms of who can reply. Note that is says: “Who can reply? People @SenBillNelson follows or mentioned can reply” Not the best way to be inclusive. Just sayin’.
#PrideMonth is both a personal celebration of self-discovery and dignity and a shared celebration of visibility and equality.
Thank you to @NASA's LGBTQ+ employees who work hard every day to make progress on our goals and missions. Happy Pride! pic.twitter.com/D6F3mdAn0d
— Bill Nelson (@SenBillNelson) June 1, 2022
Nelson is using Twitter to send out a message, a press release, if you will, not to invite a shower of ‘comments’ from trolls. I don’t see that blocking trolls has a thing to do with inclusivity. Nelson is under no obligation to provide a stage to the trolls for their rants.
Of course. The Administrator has handled LGBTQ+ employee issues exactly how you would expect an 80 year old Southern man to handle them. He, Melroy, and Cabana have faced tough crowds at LGBTQ+ events and employees have not shied from asking questions about the A-auite’s horrible mismanagement of the pronoun issue or renaming JWST.