Chicago School Official: US IT Jobs Offshored Because 'We Weren't Making Our Own' Coders

theodp writes: In a slick new video, segments of which were apparently filmed looking out from Google's Chicago headquarters giving it a nice high-tech vibe, Chicago Public Schools' CS4ALL staffers not-too-surprisingly argue that creating technology is "a power that everyone needs to have."

In the video, the Director of Computer Science and IT Education for the nation's third largest school district offers a take on why U.S. IT jobs were offshored that jibes nicely with the city's new computer science high school graduation requirement. From the transcript: "People still talk about it's all offshored, it's all in India and you know, there are some things that are there but they don't even realize some of the reasons that they went there in the first place is because we weren't making our own."

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And I've never met a right winger

[rsilvergun]

who could support their positions with facts. There were literally folks with torches marching, flying the Nazi flag, wearing red arm bands with Swastikas and chanting "The Jews will not Replace us!". These are literal Neo-Nazis (and I am literally using the word literally correct here).

People went on with their lives in Germany too. Surprisingly few Germans were aware of Hitler's Final Solution. It didn't take that many to run it. What it did _take_ is the German people looking the other way when Jews were hauled off to Gettos. We're not there yet, But keep crapping on the working class and we will be. Why? Because we're going to need a scapegoat. And one that has money enough to feed a war machine. The Nazis didn't just target the Jews in blind fury. They took their money and used it to jump start a wartime economy.

Re:Complete Bullshit

[lucm]

WTF?

This is not a misunderstanding about the meaning of the words, it's an instance of virtue signalling. Usually when someone throws in "offensive", you can tell it's a cunt taking the high road.