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Bret Stephens Should Be Fired From the NYT
Racism isn’t owed a platform, and Bret Stephens should lose his.
The New York Times opinion section has historically had a knack for ruffling feathers, but a recent column by Bret Stephens broke every conceivable measure of provocation known to mankind- the write-up beds as its intellectual backbone literature written by a white nationalist, in which the theory is made that being an Ashkenazi Jew predisposes oneself to a measure of superior intelligence.
It’s not the first time that Stephens’ ideas derived themselves from shoddy academic knowledge, or at best an erroneous interpretation of it-late August, he accrued himself the reputation of being called a “bedbug” for calling out Georgetown University professor Dave Karpf, only to follow it up with a hastily-drawn likening to anti-semitism which has since been proven to be quite bogus. What’s special about this Stephens column is that it makes the point explicitly to put forward an interpretation of race science that is incredibly harmful to Jews, forcing many to come out in indignance and call for Stephens’ removal from the New York Times as the baseline for a sound reprimand.
