That’s not true though. I am a skilled machine operator, and I was hired with zero experience and trained on the job because there just aren’t enough trained operators locally available in my industry.

historically a lot of those jobs were populated primarily by high school students

TIL McDonalds didn’t used to be open during the day because the majority of its workforce was in school.

Right wingers when someone left of centre appears: I don’t think you’re right but you make valid points on xyz

I see you haven’t met my family.

Its a real person thing, I have had the displeasure of interacting with them.

Of course, they were young college kids who heard the term for the first time in class and were eager to prove how enlightened they were, but holy shit have I heard some hot takes. The college culture at an administrative level also plays into it, since they had an incident where one of the undergrad history professors told students it wasn’t their job to educate the class on racism.

I’m with you on this. My childhood church was christo-fascist, and it was my wide wanderings on the web that showed me a different way was possible.