The Federalist’s Bethany Mandel, who has been spending the weekend raising money to help rescue North Korean refugees, is being asked to apologize for this tweet by Washington Post columnist Gene Weingarten because she called North Korea the “most brutal regime in human history”:
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962814072608690177
It's not the most brutal regime in human history, Bethany. You need to apologize.
— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) February 11, 2018
As you might imagine, “wut”?
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962815367176474629
Weingarten then called her “clueless”:
Hey, if you're genuinely clueless, fine.
— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) February 11, 2018
Weingarten’s insult then led to a back-and-forth on mansplaining:
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962816144838135808
There ain't no mansplaining going on here. I would call the Nazis, for example, a more brutal regime. Pol Pot's, too. Mao's wasn't real great, either. Genghis Khan left minarets of human skulls. Stop being an a-hole.
— Gene Weingarten (@geneweingarten) February 11, 2018
Newsflash — Bethany is correct (or, at the very least, she has a very defensible position based on the length of the North Korean regime):
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962817346342670336
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962817532955648001
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962818132296519681
You can donate to help North Koreans here:
https://twitter.com/bethanyshondark/status/962819003440947200
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