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As honest blue-collar work in manufacturing and other industries were disappearing over the years, a condescending liberal media from the coasts looked down their noses and told those workers to “learn to code” to get by. But then the same snarky advice was thrown back at members of the liberal media following a string of layoffs last week, journalists had a conniption. It was that blatant hypocrisy that Fox News host Tucker Carlson blasted during Tuesday’s edition of his show.
Carlson began his rant by sharing his sympathy for those in the liberal media who had lost their jobs during the “pretty awful [couple of weeks] for American journalists”. “No matter what you think of those sites, it’s sad. Anyone who has lost his job knows that it is very tough,” he told viewers.
Shifting gears, he then recalled how “in previous cycles of what we used to call to creative destruction, journalists had readied advice for newly unemployed blue-collar workers: just learn to code. Coding is the future, stop whining and embrace it.”
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