In the past several weeks we’ve found out that Michael Bloomberg has some choice words about young minority males, aged 16 – 25 (95% of the crime? Really, Mike?), and women, via the compendium of sexist remarks/behaviors described by former Bloomberg staff people.
And now, we have farmers.
From Reed Richardson’s article at mediaite.com:
Democratic president candidate Michael Bloomberg drew mockery from both sides of the ideological spectrum after a viral clip of him showed the billionaire media tycoon belittling farming at a 2016 business school talk and contrasting it with the “gray matter” necessary to work in the modern information economy.
Bloomberg’s 2016 comments during a sit-down discussion at Oxford’s Said Business School gained attention after a Twitter account with the handle, Pete Mentes, posted a one-minute snippet of the former New York City mayor — who has never farmed — claiming “I could teach anybody in this room” to be a farmer.
“It’s a process,” he went on to say, referring to the agrarian economy 300 years ago, “you dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on to, add water, up comes the corn.” He then said working in the modern information economy is “fundamentally different, because it’s built around replacing people with technology and the skill sets you need to learn are how to think and analyze and that is a whole degree level different, you need to have different skill set, you have to have a lot more gray matter.”
Hmmmm, lessee: minority teens/young adults, women, farmers…
Is there anyone Michael Bloomberg hasn’t alienated yet? I guess the answer is yes, but the numbers are rapidly dwindling. And there’s still time to find more of them.
Just what the Democrat Party needs in November…if you happen to be part of the Trump 2020 team.
