Taylor Lorenz has managed to build an impressive career as a journalist on the social media beat. She did it for the New York Times, and now she’s doing it for the Washington Post, God bless her.
Is Taylor Lorenz still a thing
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) April 1, 2022
Taylor Lorenz is very much still a thing. She is many things, in fact. A stunning thing. A brave thing. A fragile thing. A delicate thing.
You see, even though men can’t get enough of her hotness — they’re so smitten and obsessed, they’re breaking their brains! — Taylor’s still deeply insecure. And she’s hurting, dammit:
Taylor Lorenz says that she has "severe PTSD" from mean tweets directed at her.
"It's horrifying," she says before breaking down in tears. pic.twitter.com/ryFweRtnSd
— Washington Free Beacon (@FreeBeacon) April 1, 2022
What a genuine emotional reaction from a genuine person. Hang on, we’re getting verklempt. Where’s that box of Kleenex we keep around for moments like this?
Please, if you could spare a few thoughts and prayers for Taylor Lorenz during this difficult time. Vietnam veterans have got nothing on her psychological suffering.
Imagine coming back from Iraq after having seen your friends blown to pieces and then seeing this pretend journalist claiming to be suffering from trauma just as debilitating — because of “tweets” https://t.co/1Dc4NOAhhL
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) April 1, 2022
OK, now we can stop being facetious and appreciate the spectacular schadenfreude factor here. Because it’s impossible not to find some satisfaction in Taylor Lorenz being forced to swallow a dose of her own medicine.
A few years ago, Lorenz wrote a piece in the New York Times essentially praising kids who were calling out "racist" peers publicly on social media. She was glorifying cyberbullying.
— Joe Cunningham (@JoePCunningham) April 1, 2022
she uses her platform to destroy the lives of random people on the internet and makes no apologies about it https://t.co/Y1sOdOsGqS
— Ryan 🌻 (@alwaysonoffense) April 1, 2022
Taylor has literally made it her job to go after people on social media — some of their names recognizable, others not so much — for some purported sin that she more often than not has grossly exaggerated or misrepresented with the express purpose of bullying them into submission and getting them canceled. And she’s triggered by the people who call her out for it.
Yeah, sorry. We’re struggling to find our sympathy.
I take no joy in seeing someone cry, but Taylor Lorenz is a trench warfare veteran and she dishes out crap like this all the time. Just recently she joined the dogpiling of Emma Camp for her NYT op-ed about feeling silenced on campus. Also why is she in an under 35 segment? https://t.co/fLySC1ynwZ
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 1, 2022
She’s in an under-35 segment because she’s got her finger on the pulse of America’s youth. Duh!
Someone concerned about online harassment of women is gleefully sharing hugely viral tweets savaging her and then crying about her own treatment is rich. https://t.co/SWUymDT602
— Noam Blum (@neontaster) April 1, 2022
Only when Taylor Lorenz feels the heat does online bullying or harassment become a problem. When she’s the one egging on the bullying and harassment, she’s just doing her job as a journalist.
It is 100% true that high-profile women online get worse harassment than high-profile men do. At the same time, it remains bizarre to see people who choose life as a public figure complaining about this when their own job involves exposing private citizens to public abuse. https://t.co/uDgDLKHKoN
— Dan McLaughlin (@baseballcrank) April 1, 2022
Taylor Lorenz in a nutshell: https://t.co/hDJW89MsOe pic.twitter.com/7VZkC4V5vR
— Josemaría Piulada (@txiokatu) April 1, 2022
Totally accurate.
In all seriousness, NO ONE deserves to live in fear that the worst people on the internet will dig up and use any little bit of information they can find on you and use it to ruin your life. https://t.co/Q2fTDEjStW
— Foster (@foster_type) April 1, 2022
We’re certainly not advocating for abuse or bullying or harassment of anyone (or their loved ones) for their views. Taylor Lorenz may be a garbage person, but she doesn’t deserve to be threatened. That said, though, we don’t expect her to have learned a damn thing from any of this. Soon enough, she’ll be back on her horse, off on another crusade to ruin someone’s life.
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