Researchers Say We Should Worry About “Queering Nuclear Weapons” to Bolster National Security…

Is this it? Have we finally heard it all?

I can’t imagine what bullsh*t line of thinking will follow this, but I’m guessing we’re not quite scraping the bottom of the barrel yet…

I had to read through this one a few times before I could actually wrap my brain around the fact that people get paid to think this sh*t up…

From The College Fix:

A pair of researchers opined recently in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that queer ideology as it relates to nuclear issues isn’t about “pushing a social agenda,” but rather creating more “effective policy.”

According to the Vienna Center for Disarmament and Non-Proliferation’s Louis Reitmann and Sneha Nair of the Stimson Center, “governments cannot afford to lose out on the human capital and innovation potential of queer people” when discussing the “high stakes” topic of nukes.

These allegedly come from LGBTQ folks’ “life experiences” such as empathy, perseverance and being able to “navigate being different.”

Reitmann (pictured) and Nair claim that the “homogenous, cis-heteronormative community of practitioners” makes nuclear policy “vulnerable” by leaving out LGBTQ people and other minorities.

“Cis-heteronormativity […] creates the idea that being heterosexual and cisgender is normal and natural, whereas being queer or trans is a deviation,” they say.

The duo also claim that queer theory, like feminist theory, “shines a light on the harm done by nuclear weapons” by focusing on individuals’ “rights and well-being” over national security.

*Newsflash*: No one cares.

If you have any doubts about the necessity of groveling to marginalized sexual orientations in developing nuclear weapons, I would point all of your questions and concerns to Anheuser-Busch. I think they would know better than anyone that nothing good comes from valuing identity politics and sexual preferences over competence and common sense.

If the best and brightest people for the job also happen to be “queer people,” then great. If they, however, are not, and the only reason they’re being included is to tick a box on the almighty diversity checklist… I think you can safely count everybody with more than two brain cells out. This whole charade is cute when we’re talking about winning awards and scoring undeserved sponsorship deals. Not so much when we’re talking about… you know… life and death.