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The Fetid, Right-Wing Origins of “Learn to Code”
New Republic ^ | 2-1-19 | TALIA LAVIN

Posted on 02/03/2019 6:18:28 PM PST by dynachrome

Dozens of jobs were slashed at HuffPost that day, following a round of layoffs at Gannett Media; further jobs were about to be disappeared at BuzzFeed. It was a grim day for the media, and I just wanted to channel my tiny part of the prevailing gloom.

Then the responses started rolling in—some sympathy from fellow journalists and readers, then an irritating gush of near-identical responses: “Learn to code.” “Maybe learn to code?” “BETTER LEARN TO CODE THEN.” “Learn to code you useless bitch.” Alongside these tweets were others: “Stop writing fake news and crap.” “MAGA.” “Your opinions suck and no one wants to read them.” “Lmao journalists are evil wicked cretins. I wish you were all jail [sic] and afraid.”

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: fakenews; learntocode; lyinglib; lyinglibs; newrepublic; talialavin
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To: dynachrome

Talia is butt-hurt by her lack of marketable skills.


21 posted on 02/03/2019 6:40:22 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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To: Lurker

Which is why all the 4chan and r/The_Donald guys we’re using it on all the laid off Leftist journalists.


22 posted on 02/03/2019 6:42:54 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: dynachrome

This is what Hillary told out of work coal miners in Virginia and West Virginia


23 posted on 02/03/2019 6:43:53 PM PST by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: dynachrome

How about “Get a real job!”


24 posted on 02/03/2019 6:45:04 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: preacher

Been in IT since 1980 I’m a network engineer and actually do provisioning but I can write some pretty dam good code when I want to


25 posted on 02/03/2019 6:46:09 PM PST by tophat9000 (Tophat9000)
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To: dynachrome

Nothing good has come out of Brooklyn since the Dodgers left.


26 posted on 02/03/2019 6:46:57 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel
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To: dynachrome
The Fetid, Right-Wing Origins of “Learn to Code”

Really? All those smug reporters telling coal-miners who'd lost their jobs because of Obama that they needed to learn to code were "right-wing" and "fetid"? Who knew?

People are taunting laid-off reporters with the "learn to code" line because those same reporters kept telling everyone else to do it. If the reporters don't like it, they can feel free to go pound sand.
27 posted on 02/03/2019 6:48:03 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: TigerClaws

“Btw there was some Obama signed bill authorizing for first time spending money for propaganda targeting Americans. It expired end of last year. Suggested online that’s why these cuts are happening.”

I heard the same - and it makes sense, as these outfits don’t otherwise seem to have a source of financing.


28 posted on 02/03/2019 6:48:07 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: AnotherUnixGeek

“If the reporters don’t like it, they can feel free to go pound sand.”

How about installing fence posts...make them actually do some REAL WORK, for the first time in their lives.


29 posted on 02/03/2019 6:50:46 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: dynachrome

I used to be fluent in FORTRAN.

FORTRAN is now obsolete.

Not fluent enough to work on fixing legacy systems...

I love what I do now.


30 posted on 02/03/2019 6:52:33 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: dynachrome

Too dumb to code, Talia.


31 posted on 02/03/2019 6:53:01 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Adder

Yes. Those same opinion makers had little enough sympathy when Barack Obama was shutting down the coal industry and destroying private healthcare.


32 posted on 02/03/2019 6:53:06 PM PST by Tallguy
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To: Pearls Before Swine

I think it’s dogism


33 posted on 02/03/2019 6:54:59 PM PST by EDINVA
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To: Pearls Before Swine

Maybe, but I’m going to have a “Learn to code, bitch!” t-shirt made. :)


34 posted on 02/03/2019 6:55:36 PM PST by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: dynachrome; Lurker; TigerClaws

35 posted on 02/03/2019 6:57:58 PM PST by 4Liberty ("The Democrats are the Party of Crime." - Donald J. Trump)
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To: Lurker
It sure was. In 2015 Wired Magazine published an article entitled "Can you Teach a Coal Miner to Code" and the answer was yes, of course you can. How is it an insult to journalists now but wasn't an insult to miners in 2015?

The original article is here

36 posted on 02/03/2019 6:58:02 PM PST by freeandfreezing
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With the way Trump is bringing back manufacturing jobs, Ms. Talia may find herself toting a lunch bucket to a factory soon. I’m sure all those wimmens studies and capitalism is evil courses will get her a plum job down at the plant.


37 posted on 02/03/2019 7:01:03 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: dynachrome
What a pathetic article and author. The left has been using these tactics for decades from the 1960s until today. Some conservatives launch a few written attacks en masse and we are supposed to feel pity for the anarchists, communists, antifas, and all the other leftist malcontents that have been destroying society forever.

The author's complaint about the "learn to code" taunt is hilarious and without merit. Here's one example of a leftist Senator congratulating a program that taught miners to write computer programs:


38 posted on 02/03/2019 7:01:17 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: dynachrome

Liberal elitists told unemployed coal miners to go learn to code.
A few fly by night groups set up “code camps” before folding to profit on the desperate and NGO money.

In Appalachia, Coding Bootcamps That Aim To Retrain Coal Miners Increasingly Show Themselves To Be ‘New Collar’ Grifters
https://beltmag.com/appalachia-coding-bootcamps/


39 posted on 02/03/2019 7:02:55 PM PST by tbw2
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To: dynachrome

Okay, let’s change it to “Learn to make fries.” Coding is far beyond their capabilities anyway.


40 posted on 02/03/2019 7:04:03 PM PST by IronJack
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