WEENIES IN THE FIRE: 40 years ago, Tom Wolfe was asked by his interviewer, “Why do your critics despise you so? What have you done to merit such contempt?” He replied:
Intellectuals aren’t used to being written about. When they aren’t taken seriously and become part of the human comedy, they have a tendency to squeal like weenies over an open fire.
Or in the case of the socialist justice warriors, they first scream like weenies over an open fire, and then they go running en masse to the playground safety monitor:
However, “Twitter Unverifies Outspoken Conservative Journalist. It’s Unlikely It Ever Expected This Response in Return.”