New York Times columnist deletes his Twitter account—and gets a speaking invite—after flare-up over being called a 'bedbug' on social media.
Conservative New York Times columnist Bret Stephens deleted his Twitter account Tuesday morning after a social media flare-up over being called a"bedbug."
He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost. He is deeply offended that I called him a metaphorical bedbug. Some rewrote the first line of Kafka’s"Metamorphosis," in which a protagonist awakens to find himself transformed into a roach, to be about him, while another prankster changed Stephens' Wikipedia entry to include"bedbug."Stephens has written extensively in defense of speech that provokes"discomfort," especially against what he has characterized as the"siege of the perpetually enraged.
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