...and that is called mocking them?
Do you know that Twitter created an automated system whereby any account that tweeted "learn to code" to a journalist was suspended as hateful speech? The background: Over the past years, hundreds upon hundreds of Blue Collar Americans who have lost their jobs to automation and modernization in various industrious were not given much sympathy by media types and politicians and were often condescendingly told to "learn to code" and the like. Then, years later, when newspapers and media organizations began to go belly up and many journalists were losing jobs, people remembered the condescension that came from those circles and repeated the message to them, "learn to code."
Only this time, the history was "forgotten" and people took it as hate speech and began reporting such messages to Twitter en masse until they started suspending accounts for sing the phrase. Everyone who hadn't received a shred of empathy from academics and media elites were not only being asked to be sympathetic when the roles were reversed, but were being accused of hate speech when using the very same phrase thrown at them.
So yes, if "learn to code" to dozens of reporters is hate speech, "just get an essential job" to tens of thousands who have lost everything is *at the very least* mockery. In my opinion, and many others, even without the "Learn to Code" standard it is mocking.
