I can appreciate the general idea that people with lots of followers shouldn't do the quote-RT dunk on random people, but it really does reek to see that argument coming from the same progressive journalists who do this all the time (especially but certainly not exclusively those in the post-Gawker orbit).
Citation needed there
Anyway, it wasn't a random person, he singled out, of three authors with their name on the piece, the intern with literally nothing else to her name.
Because he's a big brave man