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The New York Times building has bedbugs and once Twitter found out, the hilarity flowed. One of the kinder comments came from George Washington University public affairs professor David Karpf, who tweeted,"The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbugs are Bret Stephens." David M. PerryStephens is a conservative op-ed columnist whose skepticism on issues like rape culture and the realities of climate change, the need for racial justice, or the shared humanity of Arabs have earned him no friends on the left. He also frequently writes about free speech on college campuses and the"necessity of discomfort." Apparently that doesn't apply to Twitter.
Trump: If college won't let you speak, we won't give money 01:51Stephens has shut down his Twitter account, Karpf's tweet has gone viral in a classic example of the Streisand effect, and that might have been the end of it for me -- if not for the provost's invitation. It's worth pointing out that Stephens is wrong about the"new standard" for bad behavior being set by Karpf's relatively mild comments, which Stephens called"dehumanizing.
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