As I wrote on Wednesday, progressive X account Secular Talk posted without comment a video showing Americans working in factories sewing garments and assembling iPhones. All of them were grossly overweight, except for the iPhone guys … they must have forgotten the prompt.
— Secular Talk ([email protected]) (@KyleKulinski) April 7, 2025
Anyway, I saw a similar video cross my timeline today from Olga Nesterova, a foreign affairs journalist, who claims that it's China behind the videos. The TikTok account the previous video came from is @axiang67. Xiang, huh? And who owns TikTok?
China continues to roast the US with AI videos pic.twitter.com/gP1uvFBKI0
— Olga Nesterova (@onestpress) April 9, 2025
I mean... this is an interesting portrayal of how they view their own workers. https://t.co/jpz73o0jYy
— Chad Felix Greene 🇮🇱 (@chadfelixg) April 10, 2025
That's a good point … are these supposed to be Chinese slave labor children doing this work? As I reported, pollster Frank Luntz asked if anyone knew of anyone who wanted to work in a garment factory. A professor posted, "Incredible that Trump thinks Americans want to work in factories." He does know that millions of Americans do work in factories and take pride in their work, right?
These videos are obviously made by someone who stereotypes Americans as grossly overweight. Yeah, it could be the Chinese.
And then there's the bit at the end showing rusted Tesla, Nike, and Apple signs toppling over.
I'm not sure what these videos are trying to say. That it's ridiculous to think that Americans want manufacturing jobs to return to the U.S. from overseas? A lot of factory towns would welcome a reversal of offshoring.
"Lunch Pail" Joe Biden visited factories to catch up with his old buddies in manufacturing. What jobs are there that Americans are eager to do? Build solar panels? Biden claimed he created 16 million jobs … were none of these in factories?
If these are from the Chinese, we know what factories there look like.
Are they saying that Americans are too good for these kinds of jobs? I wouldn't be sad if manufacturing returned to the U.S. and gave people on welfare good-paying jobs.
***
