Rita Baranwal

Dr. Rita Baranwal

Amici, Americani, Compatriotae,

On October, 2018, the President nominated Dr. Rita Baranwal of Pennsylvania, to be an Assistant Secretary of Energy (Nuclear Energy) at the Department of Energy:

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Dr. Baranwal currently serves as the Director of the Gateway for Accelerated Innovation in Nuclear (GAIN) initiative at the U.S. Department of Energy. She has a long history of nuclear power experience. Both that and personal conversations with people who actually know her indicated that she is more than qualified for the position.

Now by accident of birth her gender is female and her racial and cultural origin is India. Those characteristics neither qualify nor disqualify her for a position in the President’s Administration. She is qualified by virtue of education, training, experience and temperament.

However, the leftist liberal progressive feminist wing of pro-nuclear activism immediately erupted into applause because a woman in a racial minority is being appointed to a significant position of authority in government. How over 1.2 billion Indians on planet Earth constitute a minority when compared with 850 million white people goes unexplained. How being a woman qualifies a person more than a man for a position in government is likewise unexplained. The bottom line is this: the appointment is not a middle aged white conservative man and that’s all that matters to leftist liberal progressive feminists. Indeed, one pro-nuclear feminist said the following (as though, while unspoken, the appointment of eminently qualified Brett Kavanaugh, a middle aged white man, to SCOTUS was unacceptable):

We live in times dangerous for middle aged white conservative men who literally gave the world nuclear energy. Great men like Admiral Hyman Rickover and Alvin Weinberg are forgotten, while climate-change feminist activists clad in pink pussy hats and wrapped in rainbow colored blankets are lauded as the “titans of nuclear.” I am disgusted, and while I have spent all my 4+ decades of adult life working in nuclear energy, I fear to ever trust these androgynized, feminized activists with the power of the atom.

Once again: Dr. Baranwal is qualified because of her education, training, experience and temperament, NOT because of her gender or race or cultural origin. I certainly wish her well and she will be in my prayers. Likewise, I pray for the defeat and eradication of liberal progressive feminism from the face of the Earth, and a restoration of the recognition that Jesus Christ the God-Man is King and Lord, not goddess Gaia (environmentalism), not Caesar Augustus (government).