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The article seems biased in that it omits the origin of the term.

The origin of the term came from a Joe Biden rally speech given in Derry, NH, where Joe Biden reportedly said "Anybody who can go down 3,000 feet in a mine can sure as hell learn to program as well… Anybody who can throw coal into a furnace can learn how to program, for God’s sake!" This, in response to the thousands of coal miners who faced job loss under Joe Biden's plan.

The term then became a pejorative used by the Right, who were inflamed by the idea that coal miners could simply "learn to code", against journalists who then either lost their jobs or were in fear of losing their jobs.

There are numerous contemporary accounts of this speech, including Newsweek and on Mining.com.

That the article obfuscates the term by using the phrase "The origins of the phrase have been attributed to a man teaching web development to coal miners" when there is direct, contemporary links to the actual origin strikes me as unnecessarily biased. William Woody (talk) 00:00, 16 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Above user decided to chime in on this topic after 3 years of inactivity, less than a day after Gamergate veteran Carl Benjamin tweeted about it and made these exact same talking points. Of course it would be much more helpful if he could provide reliable third party sources which explicitly state that Learn to Code was indeed just regular working class people echoing Biden's words to take out their frustration on some elitist journalists, as opposed to one of the far right's many attacks on the free press, which is how every single reliable third party source characterizes it. 46.97.170.32 (talk) 09:18, 17 July 2023 (UTC)[reply]