Washington Post Reporter Learns Why You Never Apologize to the Mob – Opinion

RedState’s Friday report revealed that Dave Weigel was in serious trouble for retweeting an extremely mild joke about women. In it, the statement is made that “every girl is bi, you just have to figure out whether it’s polar or sexual.”

That led to immediate outrage, not just from woke lefties on Twitter, but from one of Weigel’s colleagues at the Post. Felicia Sonmez, whose bio describes her as a national political reporter, stated “Fantastic to work at an outlet where tweets like this are allowed!”

Weigel deleted the tweet and apologized. He soon learned to never apologize for his actions to the mob.

This is not a brow beat meant to make the dude feel miserable pic.twitter.com/1lIR0Y9vh7

— crabcrawler (@crabcrawler1) June 3, 2022

Things went so far that Weigel’s superiors at the Post also publicly chastized him. Oliver Darcy, part of CNN’s potato squad, shared the statement. “Editors have made it clear to the staff that the tweet was reprehensible and demeaning language [and] actions like that will not be tolerated.”

Coming through: Language Police Tweets

*WEE wew wee wew* pic.twitter.com/PrAy0RuNoV

— crabcrawler (@crabcrawler1) June 3, 2022

All this over a joke that was worthy of nothing more than an eye roll if one didn’t like it. A freak-out followed, as the national media was filled with some of the most vulnerable hypocrites.

I’ll mention that Felicia Sonmez had jack to say when her co-worker, Taylor Lorenz did something objectively harmful and unethical by doxxing Libs of TikTok and purposely leaving out context, but she’s there to police jokes when the time comes. You see, it’s fine for Lorenz to lie about people and stalk their family members (Note: Lorenz is currently caught up in OtherJournalist ethics scandal which required her employer offer many corrections

But don’t you dare retweet a PG-rated joke about women or the wrath will be visited upon you. Further, your “allies” will then sit idly by while others pile on and insinuate that you should be fired. Again, this is why you don’t apologize to the mob.

People who work at the Post know that their higher-ups encourage this hostile working environment. So at some point, I don’t feel bad for anyone who suffers under that regime. Weigel may have felt a moral imperative to apologize, and that’s fine. But he should also be aware that it’s going to earn him nothing but more scorn, as has been illustrated. The woke scolds will not be satisfied with any amount of knee bends. It’s a waste of time trying to placate them.