By Bret Stephens, c.2018 New York Times News Service Published 5:00 am CDT, Friday, August 10, 2018 Photo: Mohamed Ahmed Soliman, HO / TNS Image 1of/1 Caption Close Image 1 of 1 Anti-vaxxers relentlessly trolled California State Sen. Richard Pan, insulting him on social media. (Mohamed Ahmed Soliman/Dreamstime/TNS) Anti-vaxxers relentlessly trolled California State Sen. Richard Pan, insulting him on social media. (Mohamed Ahmed Soliman/Dreamstime/TNS) Photo: Mohamed Ahmed Soliman, HO / TNS Stephens: The Outrage Over Sarah Jeong [Opinion] 1 / 1 Back to Gallery In March, a liberal furor erupted when The Atlantic magazine briefly hired Kevin Williamson, a conservative writer with National Review. Several years earlier, Williamson had written a short tweet in which he seemed to suggest that women who obtain abortions should be hanged. Though he insists this is far from his real view, his fate was sealed when it turned out he had said something similar in a podcast. He was fired almost immediately. I defended Williamson at the time, but not on account of any potential misinterpretation of his abortion views. My main point was that we should be judged on the totality of our work, and that we are more than just a collage of quotes from our social-media history or some foolish utterances from the near or distant past. “Your critics show bad faith when they treat an angry tweet or a flippant turn of phrase as proof of moral incorrigibility,” I wrote. “Let he who is without a bad tweet, a crap sentence or even… [Read full story]
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