Julia Carrie Wong, a reporter for the Guardian, has an entire thread over on Bluesky digging into the weird “younger Chinese language ladies have small fingers” line in Tripp Mickle’s New York Instances story that tries to fake that perhaps sorta kinda Apple might assemble iPhones within the US. Mickle attributed the declare to “provide chain consultants mentioned”. Instances spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander emailed Wong an announcement that included the next:
Our reporting doesn’t make racial or genetic generalizations, however
merely cites consultants who’ve expertise with the commercial
course of in U.S. and Chinese language factories.
I didn’t write my piece on Mickle’s story till a few day after it appeared, and I totally anticipated whereas I used to be writing it that the Instances would have eliminated or considerably edited that goofy declare. However no, it was nonetheless there Saturday, and it’s nonetheless there in the present day. They’re standing behind it.
You understand how Peter Navarro — Trump’s criminal of an financial advisor who’s the mastermind behind this entire tariffs factor — wrote a e-book that cited a purported knowledgeable named Ron Vara, and it seems Ron Vara doesn’t exist and his title is only a dumb anagram for “Navarro”? I’m considering perhaps the “provide chain consultants” behind this notion that Apple assembles iPhones in China as a result of “younger Chinese language ladies have small fingers” are the well-known provide chain masterminds Mipp Trickle and Trick Mipple.
