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The New York Times’s decision to hire Stephens was widely criticized when it was announced in the spring of 2017. NGSR2ahlUl- GW University AugWhy anyone cares about Bret Stephens in the first place Meanwhile, the George Washington University provost he emailed, Forrest Maltzman, posted an open letter to Stephens on the university’s Twitter account defending Karpf and inviting Stephens to come to campus and deliver a talk “about civil discourse in the digital age.” Stephens did not immediately respond to an email from Vox seeking comment. I would’ve been fine explaining that and discussing how/whether social media has coarsened the discourse.” I think enduring silly jokes comes with the territory when you have a high-status position with the NYTimes Opinion section. “If he had emailed me privately, I would have been happy to have a conversation with him about civility on the internet.

“What surprises me is that he really doesn’t seem to understand what he did wrong here - either strategically or ethically,” Karpf wrote.

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What’s more, even after deactivating his account, Stephens still doesn’t seem to grasp why so many found the email he sent to be so distasteful in the first place.ĭuring an appearance on MSNBC later Tuesday morning, the oft-criticized columnist claimed, implausibly, that he had “no intention whatsoever to get in any kind of professional trouble” when he tattled to the man’s boss - as if there were any other reason for copying the provost in the first place - and compared the professor’s harmless joke to the rhetoric of “totalitarian regimes.”īret stephens would not survive 3 minutes of being a woman on twitter tbh- Talia Lavin August 27, 2019īut rather than facing his critics, Stephens decided to retreat to a safe space.

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Without it, free speech is meaningless.” He even wrote columns on that theme. After all, Stephens famously tweeted before he left the Wall Street Journal for the New York Times in 2017 that “he right to offend is the most precious right. But to many observers, there was a particular irony to this one.įree speech crusader Stephens - an anti-Trump conservative who has come under heavy criticism for his views about climate science and race, among other things - went to extreme lengths to make a stink over an obvious, harmless joke. Twitter users - and in particular journalists of many stripes - do often “quit” Twitter, even temporarily and in a high-profile way, over ill-advised tweets, so in that way, Stephens’s actions weren’t atypical. Thanks to all of my followers, but I’m deactivating this account.” I sincerely apologize for any part I’ve played in making it worse, and to anyone I’ve ever hurt. “Time to do what I long ago promised to do,” tweeted Stephens before he deactivated his account.

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