I guess the NYT no longer has an editor on staff? Who the fuck let that go to print, also who writes something like that into an article - that little paragraph where the NYT claims that “industry experts” said Chinese girls are better at assembling phones reads like cringe AI slop.
I feel like literally one person proofreading that should have been enough for them to go, “maybe don’t print the stupid racist thing about small fingers.”
Authors name is “Tripp” and if he’s a real person he 100% used AI to write it.
I’m guessing his grandfather was/is loaded and connected. I’ve never met a man in my life who goes by “Tripp” and isn’t an insufferable douche coasting off generational wealth.
The crazy part is he just “wrote” a book about Apple, and there’s a good chance Apple execs he talked to really said that stupid racist thing.
He goes by tripp because, according to his personal image consultant, “Leopold reitbarth the third” didn’t test well with under 30s in their focus groups
If it’s children doing it then it’s not racist anymore. – NYT, probably
capitalist mutual masturbation and manufactured cognitive dissonance / distraction so they don’t have to actually change anything and effect profit potential. while they wait for daddy dictator trump to open their proposals in the form of a cotton sack with a dollar sign on the side.
Wait a second:
it’s hard for apple to manufacture devices in a country with robust labor rights.
Robust labor rights? The US?
We have child labor making a comeback here. It’s not that far fetched to imagine children working in hypothetical US factories if things keep going the way they’re going.
Gigaset produces in Germany.
Terrible journalism. The author entirely neglects the fact that lemurs possess fingers even smaller than those of Chinese women. Why not have lemurs manufacture iPhones, given the particular daintiness of their digits? A true investigative journalist wouldn’t leave such crucial avenues of inquiry unexplored.
Hahahhhaahahha
yall seriously need some media literacy classes. or basic reading comprehension classes.
NYT paraphrased some industry people who posited that Chinese manufacturing benefits from small lady hands. that’s literally just covering a story. they didn’t say “us can’t make stuff because we don’t have little china-fingers and only tiny-china-fingers can make the pocket computers.” they just reported that some unnamed assholes said that.
From the article:
Young Chinese women have small fingers, and that has made them a valuable contributor to iPhone production because they are more nimble at installing screws and other miniature parts in the small device, supply chain experts said.
China has millions of people who migrate around the country to work in factories as Apple revs up production around a new iPhone. They often work from the summer until Chinese New Year, when production slows down, so Apple’s suppliers don’t have to pay them for a full year of work. They live in dormitories connected to factories with assembly lines longer than a football field, clustered nearby component suppliers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/technology/apple-iphone-trump-india-china.html
Is it wrong? Well, I’m actually not sure.
The Financial Times revealed that the iPhone X was manufactured by underage Chinese teenagers:
https://www.ft.com/content/7cb56786-cda1-11e7-b781-794ce08b24dc
So, NYT, do the Swiss all have micro hands? How do you explain Swiss watchmaking? For that matter, how about American watchmaking? America used to make all kinds of tiny wristwatches, including movements. There is also a few current American watchmakers, with a few building intricate movements.
They are simply quoting supply chain executives.
Full response from the New York Times:
Source: https://bsky.app/profile/joolia.bsky.social/post/3lpwhwcm4es24
Nyt is compromised
As with most news source, I take them with a grain of salt. Especially when the news sources are owned by billionaires who have financial incentive to twist public media
I wipe my ass with NYT these days. All they’ve been publishing is straight garbage
Wiping your ass with horse shit is not quite something to be proud of.
People are just now waking up to realize a pro genocide & pro wealth disparity publication isn’t moral?
With all due respect, your statements are non-sense.
They have published very hard hitting investigations against Israel:
With all non-due respect, you’re being dishonest & disingenuous.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/30/world/middleeast/gaza-medic-israel-shooting.html
Your first link is from 2018 titled, “A Day, a Life: When a Medic Was Killed in Gaza, Was It an Accident?” I’ll quote from the article:
“An investigation by The New York Times found that Ms. Najjar, and what happened on the evening of June 1, were far more complicated than either narrative allowed… The Palestinians trying to tear down the fence are risking their lives to make a point, knowing that the protests amount to little more than a public relations stunt…”
Now let’s see if they question Israel’s narratives the same way?
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/03/technology/israel-hamas-information-war.html
Titled “In a Worldwide War of Words, Russia, China and Iran Back Hamas” and I quote:
“Iran, Russia and, to a lesser degree, China have used state media and the world’s major social networking platforms to support Hamas and undercut Israel, while denigrating Israel’s principal ally, the United States… Cyabra has documented at least 40,000 bots or inauthentic accounts online since Hamas attacked Israel from Gaza on Oct. 7. The content — visceral, emotionally charged, politically slanted and often false — has stoked anger and even violence far beyond Gaza, raising fears that it could inflame a wider conflict.”
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/10/09/opinion/gaza-doctor-interviews.html
This is an opinion piece, right up there alongside:
The Genocide Charge Against Israel Is a Moral Obscenity: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/16/opinion/israel-hamas-war-genocide.html
The Reason for an Israeli Curfew: Palestinian Terrorism: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/opinion/letters/israel-palestinians.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000010140613/israel-gaza-medics-attack-idf.html
Where is the investigation? This is a video that wasn’t even taken by NYT. Regardless, for every 10 Israeli propaganda article, maybe one or two being slightly critical doesn’t mean jack shit.
https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/new-york-times-ignored-doubts-hamas-iran-october-7-documents
https://theintercept.com/2024/04/15/nyt-israel-gaza-genocide-palestine-coverage/
Let’s look at this recent story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/us/pro-palestinian-movement-embassy-attack.html
“The slaying of two Israeli Embassy workers cast a harsh spotlight on pro-Palestinian groups in the United States…”
I agree with the outrage, but I don’t know that using race science to combat race science is the way to attack this horseshit. Futurism essentially says “the NYT says Asians have small hands, but what the race science actually says is that hand size is yada yada etc. etc.”
Like, is race science silly or is it not? 🤷 If science said that, yes, Asian women have unusually small and “nimble” fingers, it wouldn’t make a bit of difference; the entire concept is stupid and racist, not just the inaccuracy of the hand measurements. Needling over the microdifferences in index finger girth between Asians and Americans (who may well be of Asian descent themselves) is missing the whole-ass point.
Does anyone else remember this fake commercial from a real life movie with actual brand names in it?
The comment section is all over the place gawd damn
