It's not just white men it's also Asian men. And you raise a good point. The acceptability of "learn to code" when it was directed at laid off coal miners, but

It's not just white men it's also Asian men. And you raise a good point. The acceptability of "learn to code" when it was directed at laid off coal miners, but sudden shift to unacceptability when it was directed at journalists is extremely hypocritical. White male coal miners who went to a boot camp would have their resumes rejected on the basis of their race and gender. The same would happen to many journalists, but a substantially larger portion of journalists belong to demographics from which we do give a chance at interviewing when they come from boot camps.