Bret Stephens is using his NYT platform to threaten a guy for a harmless joke.pic.twitter.com/N5Kk50qmdL
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Bret Stephens is using his NYT platform to threaten a guy for a harmless joke.pic.twitter.com/N5Kk50qmdL
Hey @NYTimesPR, can you point us to where in your social media guidelines it’s acceptable for an op-Ed columnist to try and get a college professor fired for tweeting a (literally) harmless joke?
Bret Stephens: The biggest threat facing our society today is the stifling of free speech on college campuses. Also Bret Stephens: I’m going to try and get a college professor fired for a joke he tweeted that didn’t get a single retweet.
I mean come on, @nytimes.pic.twitter.com/KVN9ZReeUI
Matt McDermott Retweeted dave karpf
Free speech advocate Bret Stephens.https://twitter.com/davekarpf/status/1166171837082079232 …
Matt McDermott added,
Over the years I’ve received numerous violent threats, often riddled with awful homophobia (and typos). Not once did I seek out the person behind the threat. Why on earth does a NYT columnist, with millions of readers, decide to go after a professor for calling him a ‘bedbug’?
To conclude: Bret Stephens deactivated his account. Would still love to hear from @NYTimesPR about the appropriateness of a columnist reaching out to a Twitter users boss to try and get him fired.pic.twitter.com/umSvyYzdpq
Indeed. And make no mistake. Stephens was tryong to get this academic in trouble with his university. I've been at the receiving end of the "cc the boss" gambit far too many to believe any of his denials when he makes them.
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