Oh my goodness stop it with the racist remarks already. This is the second one I've seen where you speak in a derogatory way about "uneducated white men" and now this. I'm surprised at you. If I were the type to be offended by words like some naive person who needs a safe place, then I would be offended because my white male high school educated nephew would indeed benefit from a job like this if there were any to be had in our area. Not everyone is cut out to be a doctor or a clerical worker or a poet or a priest. I'm proud of my nephew regardless. He's come through a lot in life given some setbacks he was born with.
This isn't about race or gender anyway. I'm a half Asian half white woman and even I expressed interest in a job making iPhones. And as I said in a earlier post, I remember a time when factory jobs offered women a great opportunity to work outside of the home and bring some income in. Former homemakers like my great aunt could get back into the workforce with modest initial training and work their way up with increasingly advanced training. That old paradigm may be gone but there are still many households with an unemployed adult needing direction and opportunity back into the work force.
These jobs could be an incredible boon to people of all kinds from all walks of life and backgrounds. I have a Business Degree from the University of MD and even with that degree the circumstances of my life are such that a part time factory shift making my favorite gadget would be welcome. I don't know how long I could endure at it with some health problems I've developed but I could work long enough to add to the nest egg my husband and I have built.
Look, I remember your NeverTrump hashtag. I despise the guy myself and hate it that anti minority racist and mysogynistic rhetoric has made a comeback in the wake of his campaign. But he actually didn't start it. It's been brewing under the surface for years. As a past victim of hate crimes myself I made it my business to monitor hate sites and saw this coming. He did bring it to a head and gave it a voice. I despise him for that. It makes my life infinitely more complicated and ugly. So I get where you are coming from. I sincerely do.
Just don't meet racism with another brand of bigotry please. And open your mind to at least contemplating making lemonade out of lemons for the longsuffering unemployed and underemployed people of this country. China can and will take care of its own. I don't think their government agonizes over our unemployed who have turned to drugs and despair.
