Response from New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander:
Our reporting does not make racial or genetic generalizations, but simply cites experts who have experience with the industrial process in U.S. and Chinese factories.
I can point you to the comments of Patrick McGee, author of the new book Apple in China. On a recent podcast appearance, he said “The tasks that often are being done to make iPhones require little fingers. The fact that it’s young Chinese women with little fingers like that actually matters. Apple engineers will talk about this”
Their response is literally “he said it on a podcast,” and his comment on the podcast was the fingers statement plus “Apple engineers talk about this.”
Go suck a railroad spike bud, you might as well have said that foot binding is the reason for good workplace retention, because Apple workers said so.
A woman just wrote to the New York Times:
https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwhwcm4es24
Response from New York Times spokesperson Charlie Stadtlander:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GrvKbVlXwAEFLjs?format=jpg&name=large
https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwokddpo22k
Their response is literally “he said it on a podcast,” and his comment on the podcast was the fingers statement plus “Apple engineers talk about this.”
Go suck a railroad spike bud, you might as well have said that foot binding is the reason for good workplace retention, because Apple workers said so.