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The worst thing is that progressives are on board with space travel also. Read the following utter idiocy:

https://goodmenproject.com/social-justice-2/black-people-white-people-and-orange-people-on-mars/

Going to Mars can help Earth solve racism. Also, sexism. If we do it right.
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Going to Mars inspires young people to know that doing the impossible can become possible. Once, it was impossible to split atoms, walk on the moon, or understand the human genome. Now it’s in the realm of what humans can achieve. Why, on Earth then, do we limit our beliefs to think that we cannot “achieve the impossible” and cure inequality? If a very huge majority of people say no to exploitation, it can be stopped.
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The first human colonists on Mars will come from a changed Earth, one that better knows itself. We will also learn, more than ever before, that we are one species among many. We can unite with this fact, and let it seep deeply into the shared DNA of our bones.

To know for a fact, once and for all, that we are not alone in the Universe is huge. It could well change our petty opinions about in-groups and out-groups. It could inform and improve our religions, and our narrow perspectives on who “belongs.”

Anti-racists already exist, and we did not need to go to Mars to become anti-racist. So why should going to Mars be necessary to promote anti-racism? Put another way, anyone who must go to Mars as a prerequisite to become anti-racist is not really anti-racist! Of course, progressives are simply bad at thinking. (The reality is that progressives are Westerners, therefore like the idea of going to Mars for the usual Western reasons, and are just trying to rationalize in some nominal anti-racism as an afterthought.)