New York Times columnist Bret Stephens just said on MSNBC that he totally didn’t want to get the George Washington professor in trouble when he cc’d the university provost on that email complaining that he got called a bedbug:
Wow. A friend just sent this to me
Bret Stephens was asked about the Bedbug controversy on MSNBC by @ChrisJansing
Bret says he wasn’t trying to get @davekarpf in any professional trouble when he copied his provost on the email he sent him.
What? pic.twitter.com/xNckkEpHYN
— Yashar Ali ? (@yashar) August 27, 2019
Dude, just stop digging. What other reason did he have to copy the guy’s boss?
Bret Stephens is such a liar. There’s literally no other reason to cc the guy’s provost. This is blatantly obvious and Stephens still trying to lie. https://t.co/260uTUs7YP
— Matt Ortega (@MattOrtega) August 27, 2019
He went on to compare getting called a bedbug to the dehumanizing language that totalitarian governments have used throughout history:
#BretStephens is on @MSNBC saying Twitter "brings out worst in people." Says GW professor used dehumanizing language. He is obsessing about being called a "bedbug."
"I had no intention of getting him in professional trouble," Stephens said.
OMG, the white male fragility tears.
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August 27, 2019
#BretStephens says that there is a "bad history" of totalitarian governments using "insect language" to "dehumanize" people.
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August 27, 2019
#BretStephens cc'ing @davekarpf's provost would seriously suggest that Stephens wanted Karpf to get in professional trouble. It was a pendejo move.
— Julio Ricardo Varela (@julito77) August 27, 2019
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NYT columnist Bret Stephens quits Twitter after he was called out for trying to get a professor fired over a tweet https://t.co/49557icH0U
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) August 27, 2019
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