Bret "Bedbug" Stephens is a Bedbug

Also, a pussy, but we'll get to that.

A twitter rando, apparently a professor, made a minor joke at Bret Stephens' expense. Noting that the New York Times had an infestation of bedbugs, he wrote, "The bedbugs are a metaphor. The bedbug is Bret Stephens."

Well, Bret Stephens had a meltdown that could be considered "Jake Tapper-like."

A few hours later, Karpf [the professor] posted 'This afternoon, I tweeted a brief joke about a well-known NYT op-Ed columnist. It got 9 likes and 0 retweets. I did not @ him. He does not follow me. He just emailed me, cc’ing my university provost. He is deeply offended that I called him a metaphorical bedbug.'

Karpf then posted the email below:

'Dear Dr Karpf,

'Someone just pointed out a tweet you wrote about me, calling me a "bedbug." I'm often amazed about the things supposedly decent people are prepared to say about other people -- people they’ve never met -- on Twitter. I think you’ve set a new standard.

'I would welcome the opportunity for you to come to my home, meet my wife and kids, talk to us for a few minutes, and then call me a "bedbug" to my face. That would take some genuine courage and intellectual integrity on your part. I promise to be courteous no matter what you have to say.

'Maybe it will make you feel better about yourself.

'Please consider this a standing invitation. You are more than welcome to bring your significant other.

'Cordially,

'Bret Stephens'

Stephens regularly addresses the fragility of campus activists and importance of free speech at universities in his Times columns. Presumably this is why his thin-skinned attempt to report a professor to his superiors for something he said online has been met with such a gleeful response:

@iamTannenbaum

911 OPERATOR: what's your emergency?

BRET STEPHENS:

911 OPERATOR: Bret I swear to Christ this better not be about twitter...

BRET STEPHENS: *hangs up the phone*

Bedbug Stephens denies he was trying the get the guy in trouble with his bosses by linking in his bosses in the email complaint.

Because Bedbug Stephens is a filthy cowardly liar:

pic.twitter.com/NGSR2ahlUl

— GW University (@GWtweets) August 27, 2019

There are several problems with Bedbug Stephens' response.

First of all, he responds at all to a guy on Twitter making a minor joke.

Second of all, his response to a critic is to say "come over and let me cook you dinner." As a friend said, Bedbug Stephens did everything short of offering this guy an hour inside of his wife.

But third of all -- this is the typical NeverTrump/Ruling Class passive-aggressive simpering effeminate coward cuck bullshit.

Clearly, Bedbug Stephens was trying to get this guy into trouble.

Does Bedbug Stephens take care of this (very slight) affront himself? Does he ask this guy to step outside to talk about it?

No, this effeminate coward tells on him. Like Cindy Brady. Like a coward.

And also note how... David Frenchian his tactics are. He wants to be aggressive, he wants to play the bully. But his egotistical self-conception of himself is that he's above that thuggish, Trumpian aggression.

So, in an email which he copies to someone's boss, trying to get the guy in trouble at his job, he then pulls the Pious Pharisee act that David French has perfected, pretending his real goal is just to further the cause of the civil exchange of ideas.

In an email clearly seeking to get this guy punished by his boss for a tweet, he pulls the David French move of saying, "Please, do come over and I'll cook a meal for you."

He can't admit that he's trying to play the bully, so he plays the bully while pretending to be a high-minded cuck just interested in serving a critic a good meal and his wife's vagina.

These guys talk about virtue and civility, but they're poisoning those things by making them seem like the hustles of vindictive sissies.

Everyone can see these people are vindictive sissies using "virtue" and "civility" as a silk handkerchief disguising a dagger -- thus making people associate supposed "virtue" and "civility" with cowards, sissies, cucks, sneaks, and vindictive bullying bitches who don't have the muscles to be actual bullies, so they just tell on you to your boss.

Nothing undermines the teachings of a church than a venomous hypocrite of a preacher, making a mockery of the church's teachings even as he piously mouths them.

These effeminate non-men do little but undermine adherence to the virtues they claim so strenuously to support.

posted by Ace of Spades at 03:04 PM

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