Posted on 12/27/2024 9:42:57 AM PST by Miami Rebel
Billionaire Trump surrogate Elon Musk endorsed a post on Thursday which suggested Americans were too “retarded” to be hired for skilled jobs.
After the South Africa-born CEO of X, SpaceX, and Tesla found himself embroiled in an argument over H-1B visas and the importation of foreign labor over American workers, a pro-Musk account wrote:
So basically the right split into two factions, tech right and right right, and the tech right is like “hey we need h-1b visa people to do the jobs,” and the right right was like “no you need to hire americans,” and the tech right is like “but you guys are retarded,” and the right right is like “well you don’t train us,” and the tech right is like “you can’t outtrain being retarded,” and while all this was going on we learned some people *really* don’t like Indians.
“That pretty much sums it up,” replied Musk, mere hours after defending one of his engineers who posted a series of racist, anti-White rants. “This was eye-opening.”
That pretty much sums it up.
This was eye-opening.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 27, 2024
On Thursday, Musks’s DOGE co-head Vivek Ramaswamy also received backlash after he suggested companies were not hiring Americans because they were raised in a culture of “mediocrity.”
President-elect Donald Trump announced last month that Musk and Ramaswamy would lead the newly-created Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) – an announcement praised by many of Trump’s allies and supporters.
In the wake of remarks made by both Musk and Ramaswamy this week, however, many Trump supporters have begun to express concern over their involvement in the second Trump administration.
Turn the jobs into video games.
Our youngsters will be good at them.
The problem is that he’s wrong. The education establishment, to have as many dues paying teachers as possible so the union can fill its pockets, lowered the standards of education so that more teachers would have to be hired and it would take longer.
If you compare what kids are learning now, with what they were learning 100 years ago, the kids today are being educated to about grade 5 or so.
Indian programmers are just programmers, same as Americans. They will just work cheaper.
This is all code for “Import more Currys”. Very disappointing; if anything, he has it backward. Those dusky Indian\Packi monkeys are retarded...really.
“Turn the jobs into video games.
Our youngsters will be good at them.”
$&@% you.
Not true, talk on what you know Boomer
Have the tech giants been buying Trump???
Elon and Vivek stepped on the same rake. Not too smart of them.
This article is thick propaganda.
Which part is propaganda? Strip out the author’s commentary and tell me how you square Musk’s own words with MAGA.
“Indian programmers are just programmers, same as Americans. They will just work cheaper.”
In my limited observation, cultural differences make Indian programmers inefficient and less effective. Indian programmers will document lots of hours, with dubious results.
Meanwhile, American programmers tend to be whiners and a bit on the lazy side. However, Americans produce some impressive code.
I believe the word “retarded” was made up by the RAT writing this piece. Inflammatory on purpose language at best.
And yes, the leftist domination of our education system in America has made youngsters ignorant,lazy, and wokey, but not stupid.
Hard to deny that fact. We can do better so that citizen kids can take those jobs and be successful.
“American programmers tend to be whiners and a bit on the lazy side.”
What’s your basis for that?
just remember the left wants desperately to break up the association of Musk and Trump, I doubt he said Americans are too retarded when he made his billions right here in the USA, not in South Africa. Any perceived disagreement between Trump and Musk will be reported as a Civil War and the end of alliance between the two. It will get worked if both sides are smart and realize it can’t happen all at once.
No two people are going to agree 100% all the time, I think expanding the H1-B visa program would be a huge mistake stop the MAGA momentum before Trump takes office.
IF and it’s a gigantic and huge IF, you are going to expand the H1-B visa program it can’t happen before we have a massive number of illegal deportations, Americans will not stand for it.
These jobs in particular are skilled high paying jobs that need to go to Americans before anyone else.
Elon is quickly ruining all the good will he might have had with Americans. He can move to India if he wants.
This is what we expect from you, Mediate opinion pieces.
Yeah.
Musk isn’t diffrerent from “the bloodsucker billionaire ruling class” at all, except for the fact he started, owns, and runs a company that has put us so far ahead of all other spaceflight entities that his country is launching 90% of all payloads by weight into space.
Your post is asinine.
“What’s your basis for that?”
Well, there was a disclaimer, “my limited observation”. I worked in tech for many years in a few different capacities. I’m going by the people I knew, and saw their output.
Reading is hard.
I’m hoping there’s a plan behind this ploy. I’d say, “Americans are not up to these jobs because they’ve been allowed to skate by in public schools. Passed without doing the work & now are entering the workforce functionally illiterate.”
Now let’s start discussing EDUCATION in America, & how to fix it.
H1B’s can be discussed AFTER we solve our other ‘immigration’ issue.
"Elon Musk Endorses Post Suggesting SOME Americans Are Too ‘Retarded’ To Do Skilled Jobs"
Very different reading than interpolating "all" into the meaning. I'd be good with "some Americans educated in Democrat-biased public schools" are functionally illiterate and most certainly innumerate.
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