Bethany Mandel is truly tough as nails but even she is probably tired of the moron brigade. And by moron brigade, I mean the mob of lawn flamingos who have been harassing and bullying her nonstop since she attempted to define what woke means. What’s really impressive about Bethany was how she took ownership of that not being her best moment, and even so, the drooling, slobbering, braindead pitchfork and torches group refuses to get a grip.
Granted, expecting the same people who believe there are 57 or more genders and that skin color defines who someone is to be rational and human is likely a bit on the optimistic side, but still. Twitter is an ugly place full of ugly people, and we are seeing them in all their ugly glory going through Bethany’s old tweets, trying to find ways to paint her as a bad person, going so far as to accuse her of killing her mom.
I told you, these are disgusting toads who feel empowered behind a keyboard.
Bethany, being ever-resilient, shared her story about her mother’s death in a heartbreaking thread … I cried reading it.
Take a look:
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In the last chapter of our book, I tell the story of my mother’s death in detail for the first time. Trolls think they found the motherload of a reveal with a very old tweet, in order to accuse me of killing my mom. I did, sort of! https://t.co/gTO4IR4FmQ
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
Keep reading.
Twitter from this time period is tough to understand in context. Threads disappear; I was often tweeting during debates or live events.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
Given my use of the word choice here, it relates most likely to the fact that despite being pro-life I am in extreme circumstances, in support of euthanasia. My mother was one of those extreme circumstances at the moment of her death.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
She had been on a liver transplant list for some time, before developing an opportunistic infection that put her into kidney and then lung failure. She was on a ventilator battling the infection, but the liver and kidney failures were irreversible.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
She was still fighting that infection when I decided to take her off of life support. She may have survived that week and that infection, perhaps coming off of the vent, but because she was in multi-system organ failure, she was no longer eligible for a liver (or kidney).
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
So I made, at sixteen years old, the most difficult decision of my life, to take her off of life support, in order to save her from more suffering. Even if she survived that opportunistic infection, being in multi-system failure would have painfully killed her soon after.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
At sixteen years old.
Unbelievable.
I’m deeply proud of the girl who made that decision. I knew I was facing a choice: take her off a ventilator and let her go peacefully or keep her on it, keep her in pain, in hope of getting maybe a few more weeks with her, but those weeks hospitalized and in extreme pain.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
This is why, in extreme situations, like multi-organ failure with cascading effects as my mother’s body shut down, I’m in favor of euthanasia. I wish we could have had closure and said goodbye, and then been able to relieve her of her suffering.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
I tell that story in my book in more detail because I am a big believer in resiliency and was raised by a mother that was also. It’s how I survived that, and then my father’s suicide almost three years later, when I was 19yo.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
Just so heartbreaking.
The message sent to American children now is not that they should be resilient, but instead that they should instead focus on their victimhood and create different categories of victimhood. That mindset is toxic and strips children of their resilience.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
There are people telling kids that they can’t even be certain about their sex let alone their futures. All to push their own narrative and agenda.
So, thank you trolls, for giving me an opportunity to tell this story and if you are a parent who feels like your child’s innocence and resilience is under threat, here’s the book: https://t.co/1EibHMVeFA
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
I love how she turned this around on them all.
And I find it ironic that the folks who scream about micro aggressions all day have been aggressively trolling me about killing my mother for a full day.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
It’s only ironic if you expect these same people to be human at all.
I stopped expecting them to be human about anything years ago but that’s another story.
Special shout out for @kenklippenstein who made it necessary to do this. You were definitely owed a detailed explanation of the circumstances of my mother’s death 20 years ago because of a tweet from 2014 & I’m glad you gave me the opportunity to have to share it with the world.
— Bethany S. Mandel (@bethanyshondark) March 17, 2023
Yeah, he’s a miserable little toad, isn’t he?
In short, Bethany just told the mob to stick it and I can’t help but admire her for her resilience.
And deep down I also can’t help but believe that her mother would be very proud.
