It's entirely driven by spite and class warfare. Elite politicians and journalists were the first to happily bark "learn to code" at freshly-unemployed blue co

It's entirely driven by spite and class warfare. Elite politicians and journalists were the first to happily bark "learn to code" at freshly-unemployed blue collar workers with all of the apparent condescension you described. Others flinging the phrase back at later-unemployed journalists are merely returning proverbial fire, with subsequent Twitter bans meted out by those that can't take what they dish out.