Former Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel is saying that many retail jobs that have been lost will not return, but he’s got good news for the affected workers: The government will retrain them, and Emanuel named one of the jobs that would be an option:
On ABC, Rahm Emanuel literally says a Biden White House should tell people laid off from retail stores like JC Penney to learn to code.
He actually said this. Amazing. pic.twitter.com/xlSnVi7445
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2020
"There's going to be people like at JC Penney and other retail, those jobs are not coming back. Give them the tools, six monthsm you're going to become a computer coder, we'll pay for it and you'll get millions of people to sign up for it."
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) November 7, 2020
That sure sounds familiar, for more than one reason.
People were locked and timed out on this platform for saying this to journalists but it's good enough for retail workers ? https://t.co/jaL9Hioxg5
— Persnickety (@Dawnsfire) November 7, 2020
Oh My God. https://t.co/9NLtGVpiBQ
— Mickey White (@BiasedGirl) November 7, 2020
Hey, Twitter, is this still hate speech? https://t.co/u3UuNkhwHE
— Lord Woodstone (Toss all MAPS out the airlock) (@EricMertz_KC) November 7, 2020
How many computer programmers do they think we need?
The good news for devs though is that this will hyper saturate the market and turn coding into a minimum wage job https://t.co/Ytt7obtbSz
— Tim Pool (@Timcast) November 7, 2020
Because the Democrats care more, darnit!
Didn't Twitter ban #LearnToCode or something a while back? https://t.co/W6U8fsnFiv
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) November 7, 2020
I was told that this was abusive language, suitable for having you banned from social media circles. https://t.co/XJ0Zz8jjeM
— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) November 7, 2020
I've been told repeatedly that this is hate speech. When does this crapweasel get cancelled?
LOLOL he has the "right" politics, nothing will ever happen to him https://t.co/2G5liOE4Ck
— Physics Geek (@physicsgeek) November 7, 2020
We've reached new Peak Democrat https://t.co/raWY1y6bbr
— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) November 7, 2020
Welp there goes 2022 for them. https://t.co/8zJbrvRTLb
— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) November 7, 2020
There’s another part of Emanuel’s comments that sound familiar:
"Those jobs aren't coming back" is back! https://t.co/DeAsJsS9at
— Larry O'Connor (@LarryOConnor) November 7, 2020
Barack Obama will be so proud of his former chief of staff!
