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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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at newrepublic.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Chit/Chat; Humor
KEYWORDS: fakenews; learntocode; lyinglib; lyinglibs; newrepublic; talialavin
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To: freeandfreezing
How is it an insult to journalists now but wasn't an insult to miners in 2015?

Jornolists can't learn to code.

41 posted on 02/03/2019 7:06:41 PM PST by TigersEye (This is the age of the death of reason.)
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To: Some Fat Guy in L.A.
Coding is good. It's a way to be useful to someone, if only for yourself. That's the way my daughter started after college, having contract jobs like with Computer Task Group and other coding contractors, then transitioning into corporate life. Now she is a high-level vice-presidemt for a highly effective banking group.

But even then, you are challenged to the teeth, and can still lose your job of you're not continually productive. No resting on your laurels or off drinking Starbucks. If these scribbling hacks had learned to be useful when the chips are down, they would still have jobs.

42 posted on 02/03/2019 7:07:06 PM PST by imardmd1 (Fiat Lux)
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To: dynachrome

The tears of NPCs are so refreshing.


43 posted on 02/03/2019 7:07:51 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: dynachrome
Boo Frickin Hoo


44 posted on 02/03/2019 7:11:08 PM PST by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Lurker

Yep. Learn to code was an actual Obama admin program. These a-holes blame always their lame, socialist crap on conservatives.


45 posted on 02/03/2019 7:11:43 PM PST by jospehm20
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To: dynachrome

“Crazy Lady Spews Hate, Is Laid Off, Spews More Hate” should be the headline. She thinks half the country are Nazis.


46 posted on 02/03/2019 7:14:21 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: Lurker

“Isn’t that what the Left was telling all those out of work coal miners to do?”

I’d say that the modern day US coal miners would have more success. A good number of them are engineers who graduated from real colleges with real coursework.


47 posted on 02/03/2019 7:16:53 PM PST by The Antiyuppie ("When small men cast long shadows, then it is very late in the day.”)
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To: BobL
How about installing fence posts...

Wow, brought me back. You know those big posts for road side rails? Well, this temp job I picked up for awhile was not doing that - it was moving them 6 inches North because they did them wrong the first time! What a nightmare. I picked up another job two weeks later and was happy to leave them still floundering around. I don't know if they ever got those posts right!
48 posted on 02/03/2019 7:20:11 PM PST by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: jospehm20

Can’t be a victim class without an acronym. Hows about this:

Another
Dumb
Journalist
Unemployed
Says
Trump


49 posted on 02/03/2019 7:24:26 PM PST by FirstFlaBn
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To: dynachrome
After all, the goal was clear from the start: “Rub it in their f*cking faces. Yell at them, call them names, accuse them of being pedos. DM them pics of nooses or gay porno. Zero f*cking mercy. Make them regret ever standing against us,” one 4chan user wrote in the thread that launched it all. “You know what to do, lads.”

The left thought they owned social media. They believed they controlled the power to destroy people.

They're angry the right learned how to play their game.

50 posted on 02/03/2019 7:24:42 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: Lurker

“Isn’t that what the Left was telling all those out of work coal miners to do?”

indeed. this whole “learn to code” totally originated, promoted, and repeated by leftists ..


51 posted on 02/03/2019 7:25:03 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: dynachrome

this fool fake news writer has no idea that exhorting fired “journalists” to learn to code is nothing more than sarcasm based on the left originating the ridiculous notion that out of work coal miners could learn to code instead of digging coal ...


52 posted on 02/03/2019 7:27:40 PM PST by catnipman ((Cat Nipman: Vote Republican in 2012 and only be called racist one more time!))
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To: Lurker

Exactly. This whole thing was a product of obamabots.


53 posted on 02/03/2019 7:27:52 PM PST by clintonh8r (Truth is hate speech to those who hate the truth.)
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To: dynachrome
Her response to the question about ultimate pet peeve:

Talia Lavin: "when people feel compelled to respond to funny apolitical tweets about like, snack food and make it about trump. like let me not think about him for 3 whole seconds"

If you have a twitter account, “You know what to do, lads.”

54 posted on 02/03/2019 7:34:16 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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To: dynachrome

Talia Lavin should maybe learn to code.


55 posted on 02/03/2019 7:36:59 PM PST by Neidermeyer (Show me a peaceful Muslim and I will show you a heretic to the Koran.)
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To: dynachrome
and the NPC's will have to LTC...


56 posted on 02/03/2019 7:38:36 PM PST by Chode ( WeÂ’re America, Bitch!)
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To: dynachrome

They are not smart enough to code. They should learn janitorial skills.


57 posted on 02/03/2019 7:44:46 PM PST by HereInTheHeartland (I don't want better government; I want much less of it.)
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To: marktwain
I beg to differ. Fortran is not obsolete; not by a long shot. It's still the go-to language for computational heavy lifting.

https://wg5-fortran.org/f2018.html
58 posted on 02/03/2019 7:56:34 PM PST by Flatus I. Maximus (There are lies, damned lies, and the Washington Post.)
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To: dynachrome

I suspect that this author herself has origins not American in nature. Ukrainian is not a common language for American nationals, nor is living in Kiev.

And with the Harvard/Fulbright pedigree, I suspect she has been promoted far beyond any hope of her talent in order to have her push domestically divisive narratives.

This person is a spy, I suspect.


59 posted on 02/03/2019 8:15:14 PM PST by thoughtomator (Nobody is coming to save the day)
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To: dynachrome

Well, it is sort of mean, I sincerely doubt that any of them could learn to code. It requires serious intellectual discipline, patience and logic.


60 posted on 02/03/2019 8:25:13 PM PST by gspurlock (http://www.backyardfence.wordpress.com)
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